Childhood in Button Lane

Moscow, the thirties of the XX century. The life of the hero of the story, his mother, grandmother and younger brother turned his father"s arrest. Now the mother is going to exclude from the party, follow the house, poverty and hatred of neighbors fell upon the family. The courtyard turned into a dangerous place, and the most painful test was the unknown. To survive and preserve hope under these merciless blows of fate is helped by fatherly paintings and paints, favorite books, fiction of his brother and a desperate desire to become a person contrary to everything.
Muche Mechev (1929-2018) - schedule, illustrator, landscape painter, people"s artist of the Russian Federation. The story "Childhood in the buttons was written in the late eighties of the last century, published for the first time. This passionate stunning portrait of the era is based on the author’s children"s memoirs.
For older school children