Nanny from 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.”. The main character Daria Stepanovna accompanies her ward Catherine during their flight from the Bolshevik power to the Crimea, and then in numerous transfer from the country to the country, to India, to the USA, to Europe. Only an unshakable faith gives a deeply believing woman power to overcome all the hardships of life in emigration and not to step from the path of virtue.