Swan song. Golovkina 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.