A man from a restaurant. Shmelev I.S.

Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelev (1873-1950)-Russian writer and publicist, twice nominee for the Nobel Prize; He is nicknamed the “Orthodox writer” for a large number of texts about the spirituality of the Russian person. While in exile, “for a minute in his spiritual burning, he does not cease to think about Russia and suffer from its misfortunes.”. History is told on behalf of the waiter Yakov Skorokhodov, who has worked in this position for more than twenty years. He barely makes ends meet, but considers it right to earn money in a legal way. However, misfortunes are falling on his family one after another: the arrest of his son Kolya for the attitude to the revolutionary underground, the unemployment of the father and the unfortunate position of Natasha’s daughter.

written even under the impression of the revolution, from the head over the previous measured life of the peaceful ones. citizens, the work is full of difficult events, but it also actualizes the importance of “awakening consciousness”, recalling that it is unacceptable to blindly follow the expressing of someone else's will.