About the book: 2015 / The hero of the novel, Alexei Vereisky, unexpectedly learns from an old family archive about his princely origin. What does this discovery mean to him? But my grandfather’s letters are not only about this. Prince Alexander Vereisky, who left with the remnants of the defeated Volunteer Army for Constantinople, blames… classical Russian literature for the corruption of generations and the death of the Russian Empire. His grandson, a philologist and literary critic, is trying, together with his colleagues, to comprehend the guilt of Russian literature in the coup d'état of 1917. This book has a fairly wide target audience: experts, connoisseurs and simply lovers of Russian classics, philologists and literary historians; it analyzes the personalities of Russian classics, all quotes used in the novel are genuine and even if they were edited and shortened, it was never to the detriment of the meaning.