the russian people, and every year on the summer solstice holiday a variety of people came to lake svetloyaras a rule, these were representatives of various christian religious denominations, they made a religious procession around this lake, and it was the godfather was walking, that is, they crawled on their knees, and the lake was not very big, but not... very small, about 3.5 km in diameter, so they crawled on their knees around this lake, sang songs , it was believed that those who have clean eyes, a pure heart, can spiritually see the light like this at the bottom of this lake, the city of kitizh can see the light, so prishvin went there and wrote his next book, which was called at the city walls not... and when he brought this book to gypius and mereshkovsky, and they themselves had visited a few years before on this lake, and the peasants who came there asked for prishvin. pass it on to dmitry hello to sergegevich merishkovsky, it was with this greeting that prishvin came to merishkovsky’s house, they told him, come in, come in, what they said about us, tell me, and then prishvin was