Pilgrimage

The MediaKniga studio presents an audiobook by Ivan Shmelev — the “most Russian” writer and thinker, a twice Nominated for the Nobel Prize — “God’s Pilgrimage” (Bogomolye).

The text is read by artist and voice-dubbing actor Andrei Sidorov.

The work has been translated into many languages and brought Shmelev widespread recognition.

“God’s Pilgrimage” received enthusiastic responses from outstanding figures of culture.

In “God’s Pilgrimage,” the author’s childhood years in pre-revolutionary Moscow unfold before the listener. With warmth and sincere love, he brings to life the atmosphere of a bygone time. Vivid images of family, acquaintances, and accidental passers-by are portrayed on every page. The writer carefully conveys the everyday life, traditions, and religious character of Moscow life, as well as scenes of nature. This book is a woven fabric of memories of forgotten details that, with astonishing precision, recreate the color of the century that is forever gone.

“Where else could I have written ‘God’s Pilgrimage’?! Only here and could. And ‘The Lord’s Summer.’ We seek the spiritual body of the Motherland, we want to remember, we want to resurrect ‘in our minds’! We are searching for, recreating the authentic Russia—‘passed over,’ overlooked by us!” — Ivan Shmelev

“Shmelev is one of the few who managed to take with him into emigration the real, living Russia that smells of Antonovka apples and incense, and to pass on its sacredness without falseness.” — Aleksandr Kuprin