Soft fabric. Book 1. Batist (with autograph)

The novel "Batista" of the famous Russian writer Boris Minaev is the image of "soft fabric", from the fibers of which human life, and worldwide history are weaving, and betrayal, and eternal illusions, and the thirst for life, and the inevitability of death. The heroes of the novel are ordinary people of pre -revolutionary, Nikolaev Russia, who fall into the trap of historical disaster, but remain people whose fast -flowing life is similar to eternity. The twentieth century was in every Russian family, violating the natural course of things and events - and in order for the picture to take shape, the descendants have to make truly titanic efforts. This is an exciting, but very hard work - to restore the history of his family ... Minaev coped with him brilliantly. Minaev in the past - at home, and is not believed, rather, that he is our contemporary. This, if anyone did not understand, is a compliment (Anna Matveeva, "National bestseller") The most heroic and hopeless option is to behave in this apocalypse as if it does not affect you. Remain a normal person. That is doomed. And yet normal. There is such a hero in the novel by Boris Minaev (Lev Anninsky) Through the wars and revolutions, history steadily moves down the spiral down, with each new turn there is a destruction of harmony and achievements that have accumulated for centuries. From the forever disappeared crafts, female hats, ethical norms - what was only worth the “gracious sovereign” who sunk into oblivion - before the death of patriarchal Europe with her “family of peoples” (Olga Kurgin, “October”)