How to live in this complicated modern world, with its problems and crises that only worsen our eternal Russian sense of being unsettled? How not to lose the main spiritual and moral values that the Great Russian Literature taught us? There are no exact answers. But you can listen to the wise advice of the wonderful Russian writer Vyacheslav Pyetsukh; a qualified reader (according to the author’s favorite definition) will find them in this book. It includes new works as well as stories from different years, united by a common theme—this is what the title of the collection suggests.
In one of his brilliant essays, Pyetsukh wrote that “in Russia there are no completely lonely people; for 200 years there has been no hopeless loneliness as an ethical category, because your true companion—Pushkin—is always with you, who, if anything, will console you and make you glad.” That is true of him as well: he can amuse, make you think, and help in a difficult moment…