Kataev

The book presents the first detailed biography of the outstanding prose writer and poet, the subtle master of the word Valentin Petrovich Kataev (1897-1986), devoid of ideological bias. Few people know that the writer came from an old priestly family, among his close relatives there were archbishops - new martyrs. The hero of the social labor worker Kataev was at one time a white officer, a student of Bunin, sat in the shot basement of the Odessa Gubchek ... writer Sergei Shargunov, who relied on memories, archival documents, memoirs and biographical literature, brilliantly managed to recreate the difficult, partially torn life, closely woven with literary creativity Valentina Kataeva is a complex and contradictory person, deeply involved in the historical events of the twentieth century