In the novel “Cherry Pit” by the well-known Soviet writer M. Alekseev, awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR, the distinctive life of the Russian village is vividly and poetically portrayed—the people’s inextinguishable desire to make love happy.
“Cherry Pit” is a novel about the life of several generations of a peasant family. The story begins in the 1880s and ends in the years of the Great Patriotic War. A young village man, Mikhail Kharlamov, laid an apple orchard by the mysterious Cherry Pit. This orchard symbolizes the bright path that Russian peasantry walks after the victory of Soviet power. Cherry Pit embodies all the old, dark forces that dominated the village.