Holy stories. Mamin-Sibiryak D.N., Black S., Nemirovich-Danchenko V.I.

The Holy Story was one of the most popular genres of Russian pre -revolutionary literature - annually numerous newspapers and magazines, like a gift for Christmas, published these unpretentious stories. They were written by both unknown authors and recognized classics: Chekhov, Leskov, Dostoevsky, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Gnedich.

In the family circle, everything, from small to great, was read out by terrible "exposure" about evil spirits and good legends about the help of angels, stories about unfortunate orphan, falling into the Christmas tree in rich houses, and about the old walls. houses treasures. The basis of any holy story is the support on Christian spiritual traditions. This genre, whose story goes its roots in the distant past of the Russian people, is penetrated through and through the warming soul with the light of goodness, warmth and love, the joy of the Christmas holiday.

The book encourages the forgotten tradition of family reading and will be interesting to both children and adults.