rector of the gorky literary institute this is a podcast life of wonderful and today we will talk about a wonderful writer prose writer assistant professor of the department of literary excellence of the literary institute. andrei valerievich gelasimov andrey valerievich is a famous writer and author of many romanov stories by e. tale thirst a steppe gods, a year of deception a and the topic of our today's conversation with andrei valerievich. this is literature about the great patriotic war echo of the great war , the generation of people who fought has practically passed away and all the books that could not be written have already been written. and the theme of the great war has not left our lives. what do you think, andrei valerievich why, well, you know alexei nikolayevich is a topic? it will be for a very long time, firstly, uh, because not much time has passed, and secondly, literature needs really large time layers to realize such large-scale events. well, let's just remember that leo nikolayevich tolstoy wrote about the great war of 1812 more than half a century later, and he did not relate and did not participate in any way because of his age, but nevertheless it was