Swan song. Defeated. Golovkina (Rimskaya-Korsakova) I.V.

The book of Irina Vladimirovna Golovkina (1904–1989), the granddaughter of the great Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, is a work of rare strength, depth and sincerity. This is a narrative about people who committed the feat of honor, a truly tragic chronicle of several aristocratic families who did not leave Russia after the revolution and the civil war and fell into a bee of repression. The novel is permeated with the bitter poetry of people defeated (hence his second name), but not surrendered - in the most difficult circumstances, they retain their dignity and ideals, their almost mystical love for the homeland. This is not just a testimony of the former, but the history of feelings, fidelity, betrayal, stamina - a living life with all its joys and sorrows. For the first time, the novel was published in the early 1990s after the death of the author and became a real bibliographic rarity. This bitter and majestic family saga, no doubt, will conquer the hearts and souls of millions of readers.

“I consider this novel a masterpiece of Russian literature! He touched to tears, to the core. As for the love described in the novel... God forbid everyone to survive such! ”

(from readers' reviews)