Dnevniki (Kniga ne novaia, no v khoroshem sostoianii) - Ivanov

One of the first Soviet klasss, the author of the famous "Armored Train 14-69" Vsevolod Ivanov is subject to that generation of scribes, who in the 1920s experienced an unbeaten rise, and for several decades, painted works "to the table" without having to publish them. Vsevolod Iovanov writes about his destiny and the scribes of his generation in his diaries, which for the first time are fully baked.

Diary of Ivanov from the period 1924-1963 includes the description of historical events of the time, portraits of contemporaries - politicians, scribes, artists, actors and directors (B.Pasternaka, M.Soshchenko, I.Ehrenburg, A.Fadeeva, A.Marchienhofa, P.Konchalovsky, S.Michoelsa, etc.); remembrances (about St. Petersburg of the 20s, friendship with "Greypiano slabs"), thoughts about the role of art in modern society. 1941-1945. They acquire the features of artistic prose, close in their poetics to the "federal realization" of M. Bulgakov and A.Platonov.

Diaries are accompanied by a scientific commentary, which allows them to be viewed in the context of historical time, literary life of that period and literary life.