Republic of Shkid

The story of Gregory White (1906-1938) and L. Panteleeva (Alexei Eremeeva) (1908-1987) "Republic of the Skid continues the series" RUSLIT. Literary monuments of the XX century ". This book is just for our series: on the one hand, wide fame and popularity of all categories of readers, from adolescents to professional philologists. On the other hand, deeply dramatic fate and the story itself, and its authors. And at the same time - secrets, unresolved questions related to the book from its very birth and to the present day.
How were the very young (18-19-year-old) authors write such a plot and stylistically complex book? How truthful description, what was the real school of socio-labor education of Dostoevsky? How was the fate of the heroes of the book and, above all, its authors? Why was one of them by the major Soviet writer, and the other died in prison?
All these questions are put by the book itself, and we, the editorial team, as far as possible we try to answer them - in page footnotes and approximate comments, which we hope, the reader will not miss