Summer of the Lord. Holidays. Joy. Sorrow. 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. Being in exile, “for a minute in his spiritual burning, he does not cease to think about Russia and suffer from its misfortunes.”

the novel “Summer of the Lord” can rightfully be called the peak of the work of the writer and Orthodox thinker Ivan Shmelev. The book, the work on which continued from 1933 to 1948, consists of three parts: “Holidays”, “Joy” and “Sorrow”.

The life of a patriarchal merchant family through the eyes of a little boy is shown in an autobiographical work. The Russian way of life is described through the church liturgical year, starting from Great Lent, and family traditions. This is a story about the old Moscow life, seen by the eyes of the child, and about the world of a Russian person whose life is imbued with the Orthodox spirit and filled with Christian faith.

The author himself wrote about the book “Summer of the Lord”: “In it I show in it The face of Holy Rus', which I wear in my heart. Russia, which looked into my children's soul. "