"The Painful Journey" [/b] is a trilogy of novels by Alexey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, tracing the fate of the Russian intelligentsia on the eve of, during, and after the revolutionary events of 1917. It consists of the novels "The Sisters" (1918—1922), "The Eighteenth Year" (1927—1928), and "Hazy Morning" (1940—1941).
"The book "The Painful Journey" is the author’s journey of conscience through suffering, hopes, ecstasies, downfalls, gloom, flights of spirit—an ощущение of an entire vast epoch."A. N. Tolstoy