Elena Kolyadina. holiday of gray cabbage soup

They want to force us to work until we are kicked out of work in order to reduce pension costs? The wrong ones were attacked! This is how Russians react to the adoption in the third reading of the law on pension reform, which provides for a gradual increase retirement age for five years - up to 65 for men and 60 for women. The main trend is to spite the decision of the State Duma to live as long as possible in order to Pension Fund I wasn’t very happy, or better yet, I bit my elbows. Every cloud has a silver lining - the population is again on the crest of a wave of healthy lifestyle and health-improving physical education.
“I decided to go in for sports in order to be healthy and live to be 90 years old - let the Pension Fund pay me everything that it owes!” a woman in her early forties told me in the locker room of a fitness club. “They passed this law on raising the retirement age, they thought, They’ll save money on us - no, out of spite I’ll live a long time and get all my pension savings.”

In some countries, entry to fitness clubs is free for people over 80 years of age. True, not all young people are happy with this - I came to the pool and actually swam between my grandparents. But grandmothers don’t mince words either, they say, I worked all my life, now I live as I want, I don’t owe the young people anything, and if you don’t like it, swim somewhere else.
We must come to terms with the fact that by 2025 the proportion of the elderly population will exceed the number of children aged five. By 2050, the number of people over 65 will double. And those who today complain about the dominance of older people in sports clubs will themselves begin to take steps to prolong their youth, including playing sports.

I won’t say that the legendary visitor to our gym “Uncle Sasha” (as he calls himself) is a typical representative of a fitness club, but the trend is that there are more and more such people. Uncle Sasha buys an annual membership to the club. Gets up at 5 am and runs in the park. Then he goes to the gym, where he boxes, jumps rope, deftly pulls himself up and does flips on the horizontal bar, talks to all the women who get in his way between the dumbbell row and the benches to pump up the abs, hangs out and boxs again. Sometimes he complains that there is a tingling sensation in his side, and to my words “maybe I need to get examined,” he replies: “Why bother with nonsense! Let’s better start running in the morning too!” Irrepressible nature!

But for now, Russian pensioners are more likely to save money for treatment in the future than to spend it on physical health at the present time. And you need to live today! Otherwise they are mired in the garden, in the grandchildren! Often caring grandmothers sit in the hall waiting for their granddaughter to finish his dancing classes or for his grandson to finish his boxing classes. “Why don’t you study yourself?” - I ask. "Once". “So this is this hour of freedom - the grandson is at the section, and you are in the gym.”

The programs for older people that are offered by centers at social welfare committees - beadwork, a trip to the temple, a local history club and computer literacy - also cause some confusion. Where is the sport?
"To become young, you need to go through long haul", said the artist Pablo Picasso. And healthy image life is an obligatory part of this path. The first signs of aging are a dull, senile look, gait and posture, voice, that is, exactly what fitness and physical education can change. The world's oldest bodybuilder, 83-year-old Ernestine Shepard, proved that it's never too late to start working on physical improvement - she joined a fitness club at the age of 54.

In 2010, for the novel “Flower Cross”, originally called “Merry Nonsense” and first published in the provincial magazine “Vologda Literature”, E. Kolyadina received the Russian Booker Prize.

As stated by the chairman of the jury Ruslan Kireev, the choice of the laureate was the most challenging task: “Each of them could become a winner - there was a very strong shortlist.” However, from the moment the shortlist was announced, “Flower Cross” and Kolyadin personally became the object of criticism and ridicule. The author is noted to have poor command of the vocabulary of the corresponding period (XVII century), the use of pseudo-ancient words, words denoting concepts that appeared much later than the indicated time, popular expressions, stylistic illiteracy, ignorance of everyday life, unnatural scenes, vulgarity, bad taste; the word from the lexicon of the book “aphedron” becomes legendary, meaning, according to Kolyadina, back body, - as the informal title of Kolyadina’s book, a clarifying epithet of the author himself, as a characteristic of the Russian Booker Prize, the entire modern Russian literary process (the expression is “full aphedron”), etc. Chief Editor The Vologda Literature magazine, which nominated the novel for the Russian Booker Prize, after announcing Kolyadina as a laureate, stated: “Elena was considered a “dark horse,” but she became a “Trojan horse.” Kolyadina herself characterizes her work as “cheerful totemic nonsense about a fiery tree and golden lads.”

After being included in the Booker shortlist, Kolyadina’s novel was published by the editors of E. Shubina of the AST publishing house, and six months after the award, Kolyadina with the “Flower Cross” was awarded the prize for the worst book of the year “Full Paragraph 2010”.

Books

Flower Cross: A Fiction Novel / Elena Kolyadina. - M., AST: Astrel, 2011. - 380, p. ISBN 978-5-17-071532-9 ISBN 978-5-271-32630-1
Fun Rocket: Novel / Elena Kolyadina. - M., AST: Astrel, 2011. - 250, p. ISBN 978-5-17-075121-1 ISBN 978-5-271-36739-7

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At Krasnoe they took twenty-six thousand prisoners, hundreds of cannons, some kind of stick, which was called a marshal's baton, and they argued about who had distinguished himself there, and were pleased with that, but they very much regretted that they did not take Napoleon or at least some hero, Marshal, and reproached each other and especially Kutuzov for this.
These people, carried away by their passions, were blind executors of only the saddest law of necessity; but they considered themselves heroes and imagined that what they did was the most worthy and noble thing. They accused Kutuzov and said that from the very beginning of the campaign he had prevented them from defeating Napoleon, that he only thought about satisfying his passions and did not want to leave the Linen Factories because he was at peace there; that he stopped the movement near Krasny only because, having learned about Napoleon’s presence, he was completely lost; that it can be assumed that he is in a conspiracy with Napoleon, that he is bribed by him, [Wilson's Notes. (Note by L.N. Tolstoy.) ], etc., etc.
Not only did contemporaries, carried away by passions, say so, but posterity and history recognized Napoleon as grand, and Kutuzov: foreigners as a cunning, depraved, weak old court man; Russians - something indefinable - some kind of doll, useful only because of its Russian name...

In 12 and 13, Kutuzov was directly blamed for mistakes. The Emperor was dissatisfied with him. And in history, written recently by order of the highest, it is said that Kutuzov was a cunning court liar who was afraid of the name of Napoleon and with his mistakes at Krasnoye and near Berezina deprived the Russian troops of glory - a complete victory over the French. [The history of Bogdanovich in 1812: characteristics of Kutuzov and reasoning about the unsatisfactory results of the Krasnensky battles. (Note by L.N. Tolstoy.) ]
This is not the fate of great people, not grand homme, whom the Russian mind does not recognize, but the fate of those rare, always lonely people who, comprehending the will of Providence, subordinate their personal will to it. The hatred and contempt of the crowd punish these people for their insight into higher laws.
For Russian historians - it’s strange and scary to say - Napoleon is the most insignificant instrument of history - never and nowhere, even in exile, has not shown human dignity, – Napoleon is a subject of admiration and delight; he's grand. Kutuzov, the man who, from the beginning to the end of his activity in 1812, from Borodin to Vilna, without ever changing one action or word, shows an extraordinary example in history of self-sacrifice and consciousness in the present of the future significance of the event, – Kutuzov seems to them like something vague and pitiful, and when talking about Kutuzov and the 12th year, they always seem to be a little ashamed.
Meanwhile, it’s hard to imagine historical figure, whose activity would be so invariably constantly directed towards the same goal. It is difficult to imagine a goal more worthy and more consistent with the will of the entire people. It is even more difficult to find another example in history where the goal that a historical figure set for himself would be so completely achieved as the goal towards which all of Kutuzov’s activities were directed in 1812.
Kutuzov never spoke about the forty centuries that look from the pyramids, about the sacrifices he makes for the fatherland, about what he intends to do or has done: he didn’t say anything about himself at all, didn’t play any role, always seemed to be the simplest and most an ordinary person and said the simplest and most ordinary things. He wrote letters to his daughters and m me Stael, read novels, loved company beautiful women, joked with generals, officers and soldiers and never contradicted those people who wanted to prove something to him. When Count Rastopchin on the Yauzsky Bridge rode up to Kutuzov with personal reproaches about who was to blame for the death of Moscow, and said: “How did you promise not to leave Moscow without fighting?” - Kutuzov replied: “I will not leave Moscow without a battle,” despite the fact that Moscow had already been abandoned. When Arakcheev, who came to him from the sovereign, said that Yermolov should be appointed chief of artillery, Kutuzov replied: “Yes, I just said that myself,” although a minute later he said something completely different. What did he care, the only one who then understood the whole enormous meaning of the event, among the stupid crowd surrounding him, what did he care whether Count Rostopchin attributed the disaster of the capital to himself or to him? He could be even less interested in who would be appointed chief of artillery.
Not only in these cases, but constantly this an old man having reached through life experience the conviction that the thoughts and words that serve as their expression are not the engines of people, he spoke completely meaningless words - the first ones that came to his mind.
But this same man, who so neglected his words, never once in all his activity uttered a single word that was not in agreement with that sole purpose, to achieve which he worked throughout the war. Obviously, involuntarily, with a heavy confidence that they would not understand him, he repeatedly expressed his thoughts in a wide variety of circumstances. Starting from the Battle of Borodino, from which his discord with those around him began, he alone said that battle of Borodino there is victory, and he repeated this verbally, and in reports, and reports until his death. He alone said that the loss of Moscow is not the loss of Russia. In response to Lauriston’s proposal for peace, he replied that there could be no peace, because such was the will of the people; he alone, during the French retreat, said that all our maneuvers were not needed, that everything would turn out better by itself than we wished, that the enemy should be given a golden bridge, that neither the Tarutino, nor the Vyazemsky, nor the Krasnenskoye battles were needed, what with what Someday you have to come to the border, so that he won’t give up one Russian for ten Frenchmen.

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Literary Prize "Russian Booker"

ELENA KOLYADNA

Birobidzhan, 2011

Compiled by: Skopenko L.I., head of information and bibliographic department

This issue of the Literary Prize Winners series is dedicated to the writer Elena Kolyadina, who was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 2010 for her novel The Flower Cross.

The material is arranged in the following order:

information about the award;
biographical information about the laureate;
literature about the laureate.

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About the award

The Russian Booker Prize was founded in 1991 as the first non-state prize in Russia (after 1917). It is awarded annually for the best novel in Russian. The purpose of the award is to attract attention Russian readers to serious prose, and, of course, to ensure the commercial success of books that affirm the humanistic value system traditional for Russian literature. All “thick” publishing houses and editorial offices have the right to nominate works for the competition. literary magazines. As in previous years, a number of universities and libraries took part in the nomination process.

The competition for the best Russian-language novel was held for the 19th time. The main prize is 600 thousand rubles, in addition, five finalists will receive 60 thousand rubles each.

The shortlist for the prize in 2010 included the novels “Happiness is Possible” by O. Zayonchkovsky, “The House in Which...” by M. Petrosyan, “Shalinsky Raid” by G. Sadulayev, “Hanuman’s Journey to Lolland” by A. Ivanov, “ Flower Cross” by E. Kolyadina and “Klotsvog” by M. Khemlin.

The jury, which included critics Maria Remizova and Marina Abasheva from Perm, writer Valery Popov from St. Petersburg and director Vadim Abdrashitov, was headed by prose writer Ruslan Kireev.

The jury recognized the novel “Flower Cross” by Elena Kolyadina as the winner of the Russian Booker in 2010. This is a work “about love and sex” in the 17th century, written by the author in the appropriate style. The author invented a language for him in which modern words are interspersed with words XVII century, and the latter are not always used correctly. Is it true, last fact the jury considers it insignificant. The jury praised the book for its rich language and fantastic storytelling.

The competition for the prize was high: the six finalists did not include, for example, the works of V. Pelevin, D. Rubina, T. Kibirov. All the finalist works were very strong, and it was very difficult to choose the best one. And now its author is on a par with Okudzhava, Ulitskaya, Aksenov and others who have been awarded it for 19 years.

Elena Kolyadina’s novel “Flower Cross” became the main intrigue Russian Booker Prize. It provoked a flurry of responses ranging from “shame” and “blasphemy” to “ real literature" and "tall and light." The story of a young woman burned in Totma in 1672 “for witchcraft” historical fact, it formed the basis of the novel, everything else is a “tall tale”, famously twisted around the main characters of the novel: the maiden Theodosia, who later became blessed, the “fool”, the young priest Loggin and the buffoon Istoma.

The historical novel “about love and sex” “Flower Cross”, which overtook all its respectable and status rivals and E. Kolyadin personally in the Booker race. are subject to both fierce criticism and admiration. The author’s poor command of the vocabulary of the corresponding period (17th century) is noted, mixing it with in modern words, stylistic illiteracy, ignorance of everyday life, unnatural description of sexual acts. The new laureate is accused of ignorance of historical life and other mortal sins, calling upon her head all sorts of punishments, including criminal ones. Which already goes far beyond the scope of literature and characterizes not so much Kolyadina herself and her novel as her persecutors.

Those who liked the book note the audacity of the lexical experiment, the courage in revealing the theme of God-seeking, which in modern Russian literature not welcome (according to the principle “it’s either good or nothing about Orthodoxy”), vivid images main characters. The editor-in-chief of the Vologda Literature magazine, who nominated the novel for the Russian Booker after Kolyadina was announced as a laureate, said: “Elena was considered a “dark horse,” but she became a “Trojan horse.” E.V. herself Kolyadina characterizes the work as “cheerful totemic nonsense about a fiery tree and golden lads” and believes that the novel does not test the “education” of the reader, but his heart.

The author actually learned on the last day of her work at the editorial office of the newspaper “Voice of Cherepovets” that the novel by journalist from Cherepovets Elena Kolyadina, “Flower Cross,” was included in the Booker’s short list, ahead of the works of venerable writers Viktor Pelevin and Dina Rubina.

One of the city’s brightest journalists quit the publication because she had long dreamed of taking up literature seriously and with full dedication, and not in fits and starts, stealing time from her main job. “The news of the award proved to me that I did the right thing,” says Elena Kolyadina.

Biography

Elena Vladimirovna Kolyadina was born in I960 in Cherepovets into a family of metallurgists. Father, Vladimir Anatolyevich Chesnokov, wrote hunting stories. She is an electrical engineer by training and graduated from the Leningrad Institute in 1983. railway transport. She is a journalist by profession and writes her own column in the Metro newspaper. She worked as a special correspondent for the Voice of Cherepovets. For 10 years she was a staff correspondent and then editor of the letters department " Komsomolskaya Pravda" Subsequently, she will say, “I realized that I would become a writer when I came to work at Komsomolskaya Pravda.” Currently lives in Vologda.

From 1995 to 2001 collaborated with Cosmopolitan magazine. She wrote “lady’s” stories for other glossy magazines. At that time, I was very interested in the ideas of feminism and collected material for an encyclopedia about women in history. To do this, I cut out all the notes on this topic from newspapers, wrote down everything I saw and read about great women. Among the books I once bought were two about witches, both foreign ones. One particularly interested her because it mentioned the burning of a woman, Feodosia, in a log house in 1672 in the city of Totma on charges of witchcraft. If this had happened in another city, according to Kolyadina, she might not have been intrigued, but she was completely amazed that she and Efrosinya were fellow countrymen.

It took several years to think about and collect information. I came across the fact that there is very little historical literature about the history of Totma. The writer collected material about Totma, about the era in which Theodosya lived, and also read special literature about the phenomenon of holy fools and blessed ones in Russia. In the early 2000s, she collected material and sat down to write a book. It took a year and a half to create the novel.

I went to publishing houses with the text, but no one was interested. I offered the novel to magazines, but they came from there polite refusals. Elena Kolyadina continued to believe in the book, but stopped visiting publishing houses. As it turned out, the novel took on a life of its own, ended up on the Internet, and she was unexpectedly invited to a meeting of the Vologda literary society, where various venerable authors planned to discuss her “Flower Cross”.

Opinions varied - from enthusiastic to critical. For example, one of the priests was outraged by the book, calling it heretical and disgusting. The writer was advised to submit her manuscript to the Vologda Literature magazine, but was warned: they do not pay fees. Nevertheless, I sent it to the magazine, to which I am now very grateful because the editors were not afraid of unflattering reviews and published the work. The magazine gave Elena Kolyadina a recommendation for “Russian Booker”. When she delivered the novel to the desired address, no one was there. Without waiting, I left it to the watchman. I thought: if it’s fate, the book will not be lost and will get where it needs to go. I gave it and forgot. As Kolyadina recalls: “On July 1, a long Booker list was published, but I didn’t know about it. The heat was terrible, I didn’t go online, I didn’t buy newspapers - I sat all day with my laptop in the kitchen and wrote the sequel to “The Flower Cross”. Two weeks later I called the editor of the publishing house about the matter, word for word, and she told me that I was on the long list of the Booker. And on Wednesday I saw in shortlist finalists from six names. The press release proudly called us writers. I never called myself a writer. Now I’m calling it.”

As Elena says, it is difficult to determine the genre of a work: “I think it is at the junction of genres: it is neither fantasy nor historical literature, because from the first to last page this is a figment of my imagination. And I wouldn’t recommend studying history from a novel. I paid a lot of attention to the reconstruction of that era as I saw it. I consciously looked for and used words that have disappeared from the Russian language today. Or changed the meaning. I really want this language to become a pleasant discovery for the reader. The novel takes place during the time of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, nicknamed the Quietest. Then Peter the Great came and turned everything upside down, largely destroying that Russia.”

What is the novel about? The action takes place in 1674 in the city of Totma. Fedosya, a girl of marriageable age from the family of a salt industrialist, almost simultaneously meets two men: the priest Loggin and the buffoon Istoma. main character"Flower Cross" Theodosius passionately believes in God and desperately fights worldly temptations. Feodosia falls in love with the buffoon and enters into a close relationship with him before marriage. Istomu is executed, since in reality he turned out to be a fugitive robber Andryushka Ponomarev. The girl marries without love the owner of the saltworks, Yuda Larionov, as her father orders. In marriage, she gives birth to Istoma’s son, Ageyushka, but the child disappears during strange circumstances. All this time, the young parishioner is mentored by Father Loggin, a young priest who has arrived in the city. The 21-year-old clergyman intends to enlighten the uncultured Totmsk residents who believe in goblins, banniks and the heat of love, and then go for a promotion to Moscow in order to brilliantly indulge in theology. The 15-year-old daughter of a wealthy salt industrialist, Fsodosya, comes to him for her first confession. Father Loggin was struck by her beauty and decided to present the girl as a gift to God, making her the most righteous. Conversations with him have this effect on a girl big influence, that she becomes blessed, and then a hermit, settles in a dugout among the Chud people, trying to convert the pagans to Orthodoxy. One day, Theodosia’s home is visited by Death itself, who fell ill on the road. A hermit is nursing an old woman with a scythe. Death, as a sign of gratitude, promises to come to his savior in last hour and her life. As a sign of her love for God, Theodosya builds a cross the size of an entire field from flowers. The cross is discovered by Father Loggin and decides that Theodooia is a witch who has fallen into the sin of paganism. And when Theodosier began to be worshiped as a person who could perform miracles, the priest sent her to the stake, accusing her of witchcraft.

The girl is burned in a wooden frame, but at the last hour Death itself appears to Feodosia and reports that Feodosia is not in dead list. Totma is covered in crimson darkness.

The pure soul of the heroine of “The Flower Cross” and the carnal, sinful world that surrounds her is the main nerve of the book, emphasized both by the plot and the language of the novel.

“What do I think this piece represents? - explains the publisher of “Vologda Literature” Alexander Khalov. - Life and human nature are depicted here brightly, concisely, at the level of Chekhov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky. There are several failures. But there is Father Loggin! Who sends the bright soul Theodosia to the fire only because he himself once admitted weakness: he secretly desired this woman! And yet, it was not he, an ardent servant of God, who created the miracle - a flower cross, but she. So perish, perish, and let no one know this! The novel is modern, topical - this is how people have always been: dissident, acting differently, living - it doesn’t matter that this is a bright, kind soul, earnestly striving for God! - misunderstood, rejected, ridiculed, expelled, slandered, destroyed. The history of Feodosia is the history of a Russian righteous man.”

One of the themes of “Flower Cross” was the idea of the Russians, the inhabitants of Totma, about their body and sexuality. Although the story is set in the 17th century, there is a lot of eroticism in The Flower Cross. The novel concentrates the love and sexual life of our ancestors. Elena Kolyadina herself speaks about it this way: “There is pure love there, although many take it for some kind of medieval sexual perversion. I wrote the novel at night and there are many voluptuous, erotic moments in it. I always wanted to write about love and sex, but, unfortunately, in the modern Russian language there are no suitable words, except for indecent and medical terms. And when I saw that in pre-Petrine Rus' there were many the right words, without offending anyone, I started writing this work.” Before writing “The Flower Cross,” Elena Kolyadina compiled her own dictionary. She also studied the so-called “shameful proverbs and sayings” collected by Vladimir Dal, but not published in Soviet times for obvious reasons. In addition, she tried to find Russians erotic tales. Very few of these have survived to this day, again due to strict censorship, although Vladimir Dal and the famous collector of fairy tales Alexander Afanasyev tried to preserve this part of folklore. “I had to come up with some of the proverbs and fairy tales in the “Flower Cross” myself, based on what I had samples,” the writer explained.

The author of The Cross quite skillfully juxtaposes the two linguistic world, and therefore two worldviews (artificial Christian and natural folk, pagan), as a result of which a magnificent plot and genuine comedy are born (this can be called the well-worn word “postmodernism”, but adding to this word the definition “real”).

Elena Kolyadina is the author of 11 books. Among them: “Melody of My Love”, “One Hundred Shards of Happiness”, “Stolen Happiness”. The heroines of these novels are young girls. As the writer said: “The women I describe, regardless of historical time, always stand at feminist origins.”

Kolyadina notes the influence on her works of the works of Nabokov, Gogol, Sorokin, Pelevin, Limonov, and Slavnikova. Shares the ideas of feminism. Married. Two sons.

In 2007 she was nominated for the national literary award " Big Book».

When asked by journalists: “Did she enjoy the recognition?”, Elena Kolyadina replied: “Undoubtedly! I’ve been writing on the table for 10 years, and “Flower Cross” is my first confident victory. "Booker" became a complete surprise. But I know one thing: I need to write head and shoulders above, if not the others, then everything that I myself once composed. And it doesn’t matter what your roots are, whether you have connections and connections. It seems to me that the “Flower Cross” is the gem that will replenish the box of Russian literature. I'm afraid I won't write a book like this again."

The novel was published in the Vologda Literature magazine in 2009, and a book is planned to be published by the AST publishing house in the near future. Chinese publishers offered to translate "Flower Cross" into Chinese and publish a book in the Celestial Empire, so that our eastern neighbors got acquainted with the customs and life of ancient Rus'.

Literature

Kolyadina, E. The Witch from Totma: [conversation with the winner of the “Russian Booker” for 2010 Elena Kolyadina / interviewed by S. Vinogradov] / E. Kolyadina // Russian newspaper. -2010.-S. 13.- (Culture).

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Russian writer, laureate of the Russian Booker literary prize in 2010 for the “erotic” novel “Flower Cross”.

Born in 1960 in Cherepovets into a family of metallurgists. Father, Vladimir Anatolyevich Chesnokov, wrote hunting stories. An electrical engineer by education, she graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport Engineers in 1983. By profession he is a journalist, columnist for the Metro newspaper. From 1995 to 2001, she collaborated with Cosmopolitan magazine, for 10 years she was a staff correspondent and then editor of the letters department of Komsomolskaya Pravda. Author of 11 books. In 2007, she was nominated for the Big Book national literary award. The novel “Flower Cross”, originally called “Merry Nonsense”, for which E. Kolyadina received a prize, she began writing in the 2000s, impressed by information about the burning in a log house in Totma on charges of witchcraft of a certain Fedosya in 1672. The novel was first published in the Vologda Literature magazine and published in 2011 by the AST publishing house.

Kolyadina notes the influence on her works of the works of Nabokov, Gogol, Sorokin, Pelevin, Limonov, and Slavnikova. Shares the ideas of feminism. Married. Two sons.

Criticism

Since the announcement of the shortlist for the Russian Booker Prize, the novel Flower Cross, previously considered an outsider, and E.V. Kolyadin personally have become the object of both fierce criticism and admiration. The author's poor command of the vocabulary of the corresponding period (17th century), its confusion with modern words, stylistic illiteracy, ignorance of everyday life, and unnatural descriptions of sexual acts are noted. Those who liked the book note the audacity of the lexical experiment, the courage in revealing the theme of the search for God, which is not welcomed in modern Russian literature (according to the principle “it’s either good or nothing about Orthodoxy”), a strong melodramatic spring, and vivid images of the main characters. The editor-in-chief of the Vologda Literature magazine, who nominated the novel for the Russian Booker after Kolyadina was announced as a laureate, said: “Elena was considered a “dark horse,” but she became “ Trojan horse"". Kolyadina herself characterizes the work as “cheerful totemic nonsense about a fiery tree and golden lads” and believes that the novel does not test the “education” of the reader, but his heart.