prishvin went to the places where he wrote his first book, to the very very frightened birds, the volonetskyn, where now everything has changed, because it was there that the famous white sea-baltic canal was built. he went on this trip with his son, and he saw, he saw what was built, he saw how it was built. and in his diary he honestly wrote about everything. he saw hungry people, he saw corpses in the forests, he saw this hard slave labor. he saw the price the russian people paid for this construction. “all of russia was on the canal,” he will write in his diary, then during this trip, preshvina, the nkvd members, well, more precisely the ogpu, then, yes, the punitive organs were called the ogpu, it is clear that they accompanied him and without their participation this trip would not have happened could have taken place, they invited him to speak at such a spontaneous rally, this was perhaps one of the most dramatic moments of his life, when he was prosperous and told them that even in these terrible conditions one should not lose courage, one must try to treat his work , his activity, a