About the book: 1977 / The autobiographical works of the famous Lithuanian writer Antanas Venclova cover more than half a century of Lithuanian history, reflect the revolutionary events of 1905 and the Great October Revolution, the restoration of Soviet power in Lithuania in 1940, the years of the struggle against fascism. The reader is told the story of a peasant boy who later became a revolutionary, a communist, and a prominent political figure. The author draws a whole gallery of portraits of outstanding Lithuanian writers, artists, actors, teachers.