Summer of the Lord. Holidays. Joy. Sorrow

Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelev is a famous Russian writer, publicist, Orthodox thinker, representative of the conservative Christian direction of Russian literature. In the autobiographical work "Summer of the Lord: Holidays. Joy. The writer tells the sorrows of a little boy about the life of a patriarchal merchant family, where the way of life is closely connected with the church liturgical calendar. The page after the page of the reader opens up the amazing world of a simple Russian person, whose whole life is imbued with the Spirit of Christ, consecrated by the Holy Church, warmed the warm and childish in deep faith.
This work is rightfully considered one of the peaks of the late work of I.S.Shmelev