Turdeyskaya Manon Lescaut. Diary 1942-1945

Written in 1944, the artist Vsevolod Nikolayevich Petrov (1912–1978) is a love story about the war, or a military story about love, the power of two strange related feelings - the fear of disappearance and delight of charm - connects life (a sanitary train wandering between fronts) and poetry ( Perfect and doomed to death ”of the 18th century) in one, as in the poem of Zhukovsky, which gave this story an epigraph. For the first time, the Turkoy Manon Lesko was published only in 2006, military diaries in 2017. In this book, for the first time, it is possible to trace the counterpoint of the real, extremely saturated inner life of the author and creative imagination, this reality of the implementing. The publication is supplemented by articles by literary critics Igor Gulin and Alexander Zhittenov, written specifically for this publication