About the book: 2022 / This is a collection of short essays written in 2013-2022. Dramatically, before our eyes, the spiral of History is twisting: Crimea returns to Russia, Donbass begins its difficult, sometimes painful journey home... And the whirlwind of events that are happening changes a lot in our lives, makes us reevaluate a lot, think about a lot. There is no fiction in the book. Real meetings, conversations, stories, impressions formed the basis of these notes.. Elena Sudareva is a Russian philologist, author of literary essays, poetic translations, and articles. She has been published in the Russian and foreign press: “Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement”, “Khreshchatyk”, “Patron and the World”, “Day of Literature” (newspaper of Russian writers), etc. In 2020, her book “Discovering the Classics. Essays on Russian” was published literature", in 2022 - a collection of poems "You came to Donbass".