About the book: 2007 / A lot has been written about the poet Naum Korzhavin (born in 1925), and he himself wrote a lot, but little was published (poems were distributed samizdat) while he lived in the USSR - one book of poetry. It began to be actively published when the poet was already living in Boston, America. He left Russia, but not from her. In his own words, without Russia he would not exist. Even in exile, he is only interested in Russian events. That is why he does not fit well into the emigrant circle. He loves all kinds of Russia: revolutionary, Stalinist, Khrushchev, perestroika... In this book, Naum Korzhavin - in detail and fascinatingly - talks about his life in Russia, from childhood... [Korzhavin N. In the temptations of the bloody era: Memoirs in 2 books. Book 1.Full text in the author's edition. Second edition, corrected.]