About the book: 2005 / Mid-1940s. became the most difficult time in the relationship between correspondents, the culmination of the “Novel in Letters”. Along with confessional lyrical pages, the correspondence reflects the work of I. S. Shmelev on his main works (novels “The Summer of the Lord”, “Heavenly Paths”), the life of the Russian emigration during the Second World War, the religious quest of I. S. Shmelev. In 2 Volume 1 includes letters from 1942–1950.