The Actress (Collection)

Panteleymon Romanov’s works were not published in our country from the end of the thirties. And only from the beginning of the 1970s did publications of his stories start appearing.

"Modernity seeks to make the artist a full expression of his feelings, ideas, images and moods. It requires that everything he produces be, one hundred percent, an expression of the new thing it lives by... What contemporaries consider most essential turns out, after a year, to be a minor detail. After some time—and more often after the artist’s death—society’s attention suddenly turns fiercely toward him. Not because he was ahead by several years in guessing what people would be interested in; but because the artist spoke about what was less festive, yet human—about what people had always lived with, even then, but were distracted from themselves by the powerful current of the days of their era, drifting far from themselves, and finally becoming starved for themselves."

This is how Panteleymon Romanov wrote during the peak of his popularity among readers.

Contents:
Actress
Without Bird-Cherry
Italian Accounting
Fidelity
A Moment
A Gift of God
Piglet
Hen
A Simple Formaility
One Hour
The Russian Soul
Native Souls
Bright Dreams
Lilac
The Death of Tikhon
Good People
Sable Collar
Apple Blossom
Happiness
Roses