Семь дней творения (На папиросной бумаге для распространения в СССР)

The first lifetime edition of one of the author's most famous novels.

Reduced format on thin paper, edition for illegal distribution in the USSR

Maksimov, Vladimir Emelyanovich (real name Samsonov, Lev Alekseevich) (1930–1995), Russian writer, publicist. Founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine Continent. The epic novel “Seven Days of Creation” (1971) is permeated with longing for the Christian ideal. Here we trace the fate of the peasant family of the Lashkovs, cut off from their roots - the land and Orthodoxy. The author describes the new social roles of its members - railway workers, builders, janitors, actors, foresters, their new everyday geography - from Moscow to the Kazakh steppes, their subordination to the laws of the state, which aroused either wanderlust or frantic enthusiasm.