I could not accept another life... Tramani N.V.

The book proposed by the attention of readers publishes unique materials from the archive of Nina Vladimirovna Trapani - Italian by origin, an unknown confessor, whose conscious life came for a while of the godless inheritance. Her literary gift and magnificent memory allowed with the ultimate reliability and simplicity (comparable to the autobiographical prose of I. S. Shmelev: “Summer of the Lord”, “The Mother of God”, etc.) to capture the visible pictures of the life of Russia of that time.

The creative heritage of N.V. Trapani contains invaluable evidence of the feat of her life, about inhuman suffering that have fallen into her lot from childhood and adolescence. With exciting interest, the sections dedicated to the churches of Moscow of the 1920-1930s, and then the military and post-war years, telling about the confessive path of Nina Vladimirovna.

The whole life of N.V. Trunkani is closely connected with Vladimir- With the Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir and with the city where she lived her century, working in the Vladimir diocese, the section “From the Diary of the 1959-1960s”. It is of great interest for the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th century.

completes the book of the poems of Nina Trapani “Fallen Leaves” - evidence of the versatility of her literary talent.

In some cases, the author was preserved in some cases spelling and punctuation, as well as colloquial speech of that time.