The sun is dead. 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 stop thinking about Russia and suffer from its misfortunes.”

epic “The Sun of the Dead” was the first significant work that the author published in exile. It reflects the most terrible events that was not lucky enough to survive Ivan Shmelev: red terror, hunger in the Crimea, which began when conquering the territories of the Bolshevik army and the introduction of a “new order” into a previously late life, and, worse, the death of a son in the dungeons of an emergency commission. In this work, “despair and the universal death of the first Soviet years” was conveyed.

The book was translated into many languages ​​of the world and soon brought the author wide fame. “Read this if you have the courage.”