Sviashchennyi dar - Granin Daniil Aleksandrovich

The new book of the series 'Great Russia' includes selected articles by the outstanding Russian writer, publicist, public figure Daniil Granin. The author's focus is the phenomenon of genius, the talent of the writer, the 'sacred gift'. Literary portraits of A. S. Pushkin, F. M. Dostoyevsky, L. N. Tolstoy, M. Gorky, I. A. Bunin, A. P. Chekhov make the first section, in the second - articles about the Russian intelligentsia, about the blockade of Leningrad, about St. Petersburg and its history.