Christmas in Moscow. 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 stop thinking about Russia and suffer from its misfortunes.”.

“Here, we spoke about Christmas... And they did not see the former Russia and have no concepts what Russian Christmas is, how they were waiting for it and how we met. In Moscow, in Moscow, his sign from afar shone, was golden with a puppy-vomita in the night of frosty-the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. "