Pilgrimage. 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 end of the 1980s successfully published it in Russia. In it, Ivan Shmelev addresses the memories of the lost Motherland, with sadness and warmth describes the distant childhood, which he was lucky enough to spend in pre -revolutionary Moscow, and talks about the way of life in those days. Like a little Vanya, along with his father’s employee, a carpenter Gorkin, makes a pilgrimage from a parental house in Sergiev Posad, where they meet the famous old man Barnabas of Gefsimansky, and in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.