Childhood of Nikita

The book of Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy “Childhood of Nikita”, or as she originally called the “Tale of many excellent things”, one of the brightest and warmest literary stories about childhood. This autobiographical story describes the world of a nine -year -old boy, the son of a landowner, - Nikita. Life in the noble estate in the Volga region, friendship with village boys, the first timid manifestation of feelings for the girl Lily, study with Arkady Ivanovich and, of course, wonderful pets of the boy: cat Vasily Vasilievich, a squat Zheltukhin, a horse nickname Klopik and amazing, spiritualized nature of Russia. .. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the pre -revolutionary history of Russia, in the pure world of childhood, incredibly beautiful in any time of the nature of the native land, special, careful and sensitive attitude to animals.

A.N. Tolstoy wrote: "I grew alone, in contemplation, in dissolution, among the great phenomena of the Earth and the sky. July lightning over a dark garden, autumn fogs, like milk, a dry twig, sliding under the wind on the first ice of the pond, winter blizzards, falling asleep with snowdrifts of huts to the very pipes, spring noise of water, screaming of rooks flying to last year"s nests, people in the cycle of seasons , birth and death, like sunrise and sunset, like the fate of grain, animals, birds, boats with red faces living in the cracks of the earth, the smell of a ripe apple, the smell of a bonfire in a twilight hollow ... "