About the book: year / Born in Moscow into a merchant family. In 1898 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow University. He has appeared in print since 1895. The best pre-revolutionary works of Shmelev are characterized by a deep knowledge of urban life and the folk language, and attention to the “story”. These are the stories "Disintegration" (1907), "Citizen Ukleikin" (1908), "The Man from the Restaurant" (1911). In 1922, Shmelev emigrated and went to Paris. In exile he published stories, pamphlets, and novels; his best work of those years, of course, is “The Summer of the Lord”" (1933).