One day of Ivan Denisovich. Matrenin yard

“One day of Ivan Denisovich "and" Matryonin Dvor " - stories that miraculously saw the light during the Khrushchov thaw - with amazing brightness and reliability showed readers completely different, opposite to the officially promoted line of the surrounding reality, first reflected in the mirror of large literature.
One day of a prisoner in the camp, from climb to the end, is more expressive and terrible in the usual simplicity of his monstrous schedule than the whole history of the Stalinist camps. The last months of the life of the old peasant woman seemed to have absorbed her all her mean to joy, rich on mountain, injustice and hard work of life. The village righteous man Matryona and the Z/K-854 Ivan Denisovich unites the moral force with which they tolerate, it would seem, completely unbearable, remaining people, without whom, “according to the proverb, there is no village. Not a city. Not all our land. "
memorable, atmospheric illustrations for the book were painted by graphic artist, professor of the Academy named after A. L. Stieglitsa N. Yu. Lavrukhin