Valaam Monastery: Forty years of separation
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In 1895, a student Ivan Shmelev - as it seems, by chance - chooses the island of Valaam for a wedding trip. "This trip did not pass without a trace: I made a lot of impressions, sensations - and the book came out. This first book, which brought me both joy and anxiety ... Before the war, I was offered to reprint it - I refused: she is too young, light. Now I wouldn’t write so, but I still have remained to the bottom: Bright Valaam, ”so I recalled my traveling essay "on the rocks of Valaam", published in 1897, already a mature writer.
After forty years (1935) with warmth and tenderness the prose writer, the Nobel Prize in Literature (1931) describes a journey made in his youth, but the images from youth are evaluating a deeply believing person who lived a difficult life.
Essay "on the rocks of Valaam" saw the light in 1897, "Old Valaam" in 1935
After forty years (1935) with warmth and tenderness the prose writer, the Nobel Prize in Literature (1931) describes a journey made in his youth, but the images from youth are evaluating a deeply believing person who lived a difficult life.
Essay "on the rocks of Valaam" saw the light in 1897, "Old Valaam" in 1935
Author:
Author:Shmelev Ivan Sergeevich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Children's Book
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Historical Literature
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:7+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00138-267-6
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