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The correspondence of two great Russian writers, Viktor Petrovich Astafyev and Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin, covers the period of a quarter century - from 1974 to 1999. Years are truly turning, complex, contradictory. On these pages you will not find "panacea" recipes, moralization or authoritarian assessments. But you will feel the breath of a simple life, the way it was, there is ... Marya Semenovna Astafyeva has become a mediator between two geniuses for one and a half decades. The warmth and tenderness of the female voice simply and naturally fit into the canvas of the ambiguous relations of two creators.
Each writer has his own publishing house. Both for Valentin Grigoryevich, and for Victor Petrovich, they became a "young guard". So it is not by chance that this book is published here.
Before you, without exaggeration, is a monument of Russian culture and history of turning point. But it is better to just read into the light and the passing truth in which the common heart is heard ...
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