Монахи и женщины. (Мощи). Роман. В 2 т. Т. 1-2

T. 1: 186, [6] p.;
T. 2: 154, [6] p.;
(Series: Library "Literary novelties")
Lifetime edition. In three publishing illustrated covers by the artist A. Edelhous. Worn covers, fragmentary loss on the spine. In book. 1 cover partially detaches from the book block; in book. 2 the back cover comes off the block. Owner's signatures on titles. Book blocks are weak, break up into notebooks. Slight moisture marks on the edges of some pages. In general, the preservation is good

Kalinnikov Iosif Fedorovich (1890–1934) was a Silver Age poet, writer and ethnographer. Since 1922 in exile. In childhood and adolescence, he observed the monastic life of the Beloberezhskaya Hermitage a lot, collected rich impressions, which he later reflected in the novel Relics, where he focused his attention mainly on the “wrong side” of monastic life. The novel was soon declared pornography and a counter-revolutionary libel in the USSR, the church environment took up arms against the author, and the book was ordered to be removed from all libraries