Natalya Baranskaya is a prose writer and literary scholar, author of the well-known novella "A Week Like a Week," books about Pushkin and his time; she took part in creating the State Museum of A. S. Pushkin in Moscow.
"The Journey of the Homeless" is the story of several generations of a large Baransky-Radchenko-Rozanov family.
Lyubov Radchenko, the author’s mother, was a reckless, passionate revolutionary who knew how to win people over—but she was not suited for family life. The author’s father, Vladimir Rozanov, and his uncle, the well-known philosopher Vasily Rozanov, called her “an Esdek in the course of wandering.” Natalia Baranskaya’s parents and people from their circle are not frozen portraits, but real people—educated, fiery, difficult to get along with, sometimes even obsessed.
The book’s heroes faced many trials: voluntary and involuntary separations, frequent loneliness, other people’s homes and homelessness, alternating with the joy of reunions…