Widow the steamer. Grekova I.

Elena Sergeevna Ventzel (1907-2002) was born in a family of teachers and in her own way continued the case of both parents. Following her father, she graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics and took up applied mathematics, and under the influence of her mother, who taught literature, she began to write, taking the “mathematical” pseudonym-I. Grekova.

since the 1960s in the 1960s in Literary magazines began to appear her stories and novels, later, already in the 1990s, the light of the writer saw the light. “Widow Steamboat” is a piercing story about the fate of the five women reduced by unkind time in the close space of a communal apartment. Each of the heroines brought its own road here, with its happy and sad turns. Extremely different, they are united by one - all of them are widows. Having survived both joy and grief, they sincerely look for meaning outside ordinary female happiness.

“The Mistress of the Hotel” - an exciting narrative of a simple and bright woman, who also experienced a lot in her lifetime, invariably gave her all her to people. A well -deserved reward, great love, comes to the heroine when she is already ready to part with all hope.

riding her works from pretense of sentimentality, I. Grekova shows the whole strength of the realistic method: life, sometimes gray and everyday, executed anxieties and regrets, appears to be devoid of any embellishment, but at the same time clean, deep and real.

about the difficult times, about the fate that they curved, the author speaks honestly and simply-with sympathy, compassion and compassion and compassion oversized hope.