Kataev: Pogonia za vechnoi vesnoi

The book presents the first detailed biography of an outstanding prozoika and poet, a fine master of the word Valentin Petrovich Kitaev, devoid of ideological bias. Few people know that the writer comes from an ancient priestly family, among his close relatives there were archbishops - new martyrs. The hero of Socialist Labor Kataev was once a white officer, a disciple of Bunin, he was sitting in the cellar of the Odessa Gubchek ... The writer Sergei Shargunov, who relied on memories, archival documents, memoirs and biographical literature, brilliantly managed to recreate a difficult, partly mysterious, closely intertwined with the literary creativity life of Valentin Kataev - a complex and contradictory person deeply involved in the historical events of the XX century.