Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 4, 2012
GEORGIJ GRATT. The Land of Skylarks.
There are many layers and aspects within this novel. Like any genuine novel it’s full of different plot lines and various psychologically reliable characters. But trying to define its most important message it would be right to say that it is a novel about the times of dramatic social cataclysm when the world is being crashed and everybody is trying to find one’s place in it and one’s way of adequate behavior basing on one’s moral principles and religious believes.
VLADIMIR KURNOSENKO. By Way of Wind and Clouds. A short story.
The main purpose both in the works and in the life of the untimely deceased wonderful Russian writer Vladimir Kurnosenko was the search of Faith, aspiration for God, moral seeking for the purport of life. We present here his last short story left on the desk of the author.
Poets usually appeal to Eternity. They often address to God like to their Interlocutor, Teacher, Judge. OLESYA NICKOLAYEVA, OLEG EFIMOV, ULDIS BERZINSH, MIKHAIL KAGANOVICH, TEMUR VARKI — all of them together and each in particular irrespective of being Christian, Hebrew or Moslem are innermostly talking to God in their poems presented in this issue.
YOURIJ MIKHAYLOV. To the Faith Through the Knowledge.
The author of this essay — writer, scholar and publisher — is known by his active position in interpreting the true Muslim dogma and opposing to falsifiers of Islam. From this essay the readers will learn many things that will be new for them, unexpected at times, that will surprise them and make ponder.
VASSILIJ GOLOVANOV. Returning to Sogratal. Part two.
The second part of V. Golovanov’s documentary about his travelling through Dagestan is dedicated to the question: how deep could be understanding (or not understanding) between parallel spiritual spaces like mine marked with evident (and seemingly inevitable) fluidity and the space of Mohammed’s spirit the beauty of which reminds the rock crystal grating?