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! ”
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| Characteristics | |
| A country | Russia |
| Age | From 16 years old |
| Author | Golovkina (Rimskaya-Korsakova) Irina |
| Number of pages | 992 |
| The year of publishing | 2023 |
| Type of cover | Soft binding |
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