About the book: 2018 / For more than 50 years, Ivan Vasilyevich Shmelev wrote a novel about the history of his native village. Ivan Vasilyevich begins his narrative from the 20s of the twentieth century and describes in detail the sights of his native village, rural peasant life, neighbors and relatives, events and the nature of his native land. The novel amazes with its simplicity of presentation, boundless love for one’s homeland and the innate sense of dignity of the Russian peasant..