A century of love.Memoir novel

"A century of love" - so named Eugene Voiskounsky, one of the oldest Russian prose writers, his Main Book, long-term work. Biography of the author of the memoir unfolds as a novel from the late 30's until the late 80-ies. Here and Baku school youth, and paintings of pre-war Leningrad, and - closeup - war in the Baltic, the defence of Hanko Peninsula, siege days and nights of Kronstadt. Here, many events in the life of the country. The author was lucky to survive, and he maintains a dialogue with its own destiny. And it is tightly intertwined with the fate of the girl from a parallel class, which he confessed his love for high school graduation. Their relationship, their half-century of love and form the basis of the plot of this novel memoir.