The Lord"s Summer: Holidays. Joys. Sorrows: a novel. By Shmelev I

Everything collapsed, and twice: at first Russia was trampled by the Bolsheviks, the revolution killed her son and kicked it to a foreign land. Then life in exile began to might to wash the memory of Rus"-Russia and take hope when? Either inhale the spirit of the pious Russian life left in the past.
Already an adult, the writer Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelev (1873–1950), after the success of the novel “The Plaiser” (1931) and the nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature, is decided for great labor - to capture the memory of childhood about Russia"s pious in the novel -Rigliy “Summer of the Lord”, which he writes fourteen years, from 1933 to 1948.
Summer of the Lord rightly entered the Corps of Classics of Russian Literature of the XX century. “In this book,” said Shmelev, “I show the face of Holy Rus", which I wear in my heart ... Russia, which looked into my childhood soul.”