“In the memorial essay “At Elder Barnabas” it is told how forty years ago I, a young, twenty-year-old student, “shaken from the Church,” chose for my wedding...

“I look with sadness at the snow mountain in the garden: it has softened, it is flowing, the sled has pushed through it. It's March, winter is over. Yesterda...

Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev (1873–1950) is an outstanding Russian writer, a great master of image and word, who preserved in his works the memory of the special ...

This is a book from the “Classics at School” series, which contains all the works studied in elementary, middle school and high school. Don’t waste time sear...

The work of Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev, rediscovered in the late 80s of the twentieth century, occupies a special place in the history of Russian literature. Th...

The book includes letters from 1939-1943 that were not included in the two-volume set (“A Novel in Letters”). Lyrical pages are combined with memories, refle...

The mid-1940s became the most difficult time in relations between correspondents, the culmination of the “Novel in Letters.” Along with confessional lyrical ...