Russian soul. The story. Stories

The XX century was rich in talented artists, unfairly forgotten for various reasons. Panteleimon Romanov was such undeservedly forgotten - in the 20s of the last century one of the most famous and published Soviet writers. He left a rich heritage - a twelve -volume collected of works, uniting works of different genres: novels, novels, stories, plays, realistically displaying the modern author with all its urgent problems, without embarrassing anything, without giving the desired as real.
The collection proposed by the reader includes the story "Childhood" and a number of stories: "Russian soul", "native language", "Italian accounting", "death of Tikhon", "Black Belts", "Lights", "Puroma" , "Good people" and many others. The story "Childhood", rich in household sketches and pictures of nature, shows us a typical village life, seen by the eyes of the child - brightly, convex, with many details. The heroes of Romanov’s stories are ordinary people who reveal their complex and contradictory inner world in different situations. Some of them are thinking about the meaning of life and choosing a path, someone is about the causes of failures and their place in life, and someone is concerned about the issues of love and freedom of personality. The book includes humorous stories and serious psychological works, which combine lyricism and irony, and the tragedy is adjacent to the satire. Reading Romanov’s stories today, we hear the voices of that distant difficult era, we plunge into the life of people separated from us for the century, and empathize with their problems, concerns, anxiety and hopes