Pilgrimage. Stories and stories. Shmelev I.S.

Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelev (1873-1950)-a writer, entirely turned into the past, for the most part in happy childhood, when his Orthodox soul was laid. His novel “The pilgrimage”, in which he describes the pilgrimage in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, is a stylistic pearl of Russian prose, written by a mature master on behalf of a good and innocent six-year-old boy, immersed in the atmosphere of universal love and inexhaustible religious joy before the generous gifts of the Lord and the beautiful The magic of the divine world created by him. On the pages of the book, the author recreates and perpetuates the instant and unsteady images of the passing past, generously draws them from the treasury of their memory so that readers can feel the former beautiful world.

The collection also includes chosen stories, many of which Diloked by divine joy. In them, I. S. Shmelev shows the Christian essence of the Russian people. He believes that, contrary to all fatal circumstances, hardships, the hardships of life, evil human intentions, the people will sooner or later find the desired “soul of the homeland”, will find the invisible city of Kitezh and finally gain the long -awaited happiness.

for children of senior school age.