Tolstoy. Chekhov. Lenin

"A thought that, noticeably more often than others sharpens his heart - the thought of God" is the key idea of ​​the most famous and remarkable of the literary portraits of Gorky - memoirs about Leo Tolstoy. But what, in communication with the great writer, made the author come to another, very unexpected conclusion: “He has a very vague relationship with God, but sometimes they remind me of the relationship of the "two bears in the same den"?
Gorky, in which literary talent has always been combined with the acute observation of a born journalist, tried to penetrate the masks of a public image of a brilliant Russian writer.
The collection also included memories of Chekhov, Lenin and other famous contemporaries who left a vivid mark in Russian history and culture