There is such a country - gypsies!

Such a collection of works of art has never been. Together, stories, stories, plays and essays, and even more so poems dedicated to gypsies and gypsy life, never gathered, did not meet each other. Gypsy motifs occupy a prominent place in Russian prose and poetry, moreover, gypsy characters very often not only compete with Russian characters, but also replay them. And this is not only the excellent skill of the classics of Russian literature, but also objective reality: gypsies and gypsies are more original, colorful than heroes and characters among the nobles, and among merchants and philistines, and even among representatives of the labor layers of the Russian people. This is a riddle of not only gypsies, but also the history of Russian literature. The post -revolutionary period of the history of literature in the collection is presented in less detail. The best novel by Anatoly Kalinin "Gypsies" is a very voluminous work, so we send our readers to the libraries. There were reasons not only editorial and publishing, but also legal ones, and some works had to be abandoned in advance. All the more joyful was the find - the unique story of the Voronezh poet and a prose writer, the defender of Leningrad during the blockade of Mikhail Kasatkin "Persita" about the young gypsy - a brave and resourceful intelligence officer. The collection of the compiler of the book N.N. Sotnikova. All texts are published in copyright editions. Rare reductions are especially agreed