this wonderful transition was made for me in a very new way, i’ve read a lot of books about the war, graninas a writer, and this, of course, for the patriarch of literature for ninety years. this is a very young book, it’s true, it’s very, very cool, very human, very like that, it’s personally written, despite the fact that as an author, of course, this is a great achievement, yes, it would have been on an epic scale, unfortunately, it not very big. i say why i feel sorry that he took it up too late, it’s really there, well, let it not be war and peace, but some book in which he could show the penetration of war and peace, these two different states of the then soviet society, but because of what he did, we must say a huge thank you to him, to our viewers, and this the book, if anyone has not read it, i definitely recommend reading it, a conversation with andrei gelasimov, with you alexey varlamov, writer, rector of the literary institute, podcast life of the remarkable. also, by the way, if we talk specifically about leningrad, i would name the writer a book that, perhaps, does not directl