"Chase for the eternal spring"

The book presents the first detailed biography of an outstanding prose and poet, a subtle master of Word Valentina Petrovich Katava (1897-1986), deprived of ideological bias. Few people know that the writer took place from an old priesthood, among his close relatives were Archbishops - new martyrs. Hero of Socytrud Kataev was at one time a white officer, a pupil of Bunin, sitting in the shot basement of the Odessa Golovka ... Writer Sergey Shargunov, who appeared on the memories, archival documents, memoir and biographical literature, brilliantly managed to recreate not easy, partly mysterious, closely woven with literary The life of Valentina Kataeva - a complex and controversial person, deeply involved in the historical events of the twentieth century