About the book: 2019 / "The autumn wind is angry and wild - whistling and howling. The dark sky is covered with lead clouds, the Volga with foamy waves. Like mysterious animals, they poke their gray, shaggy heads out of the depths of the dark blue river and whirl in unbridled round dances, rejoicing in the freedom and howling of the autumn wind...” The collection of the little-known Russian writer Boris Alekseevich Verkhoustinsky includes a story and stories from different years:• Before the flood ( pov. 1912).• Pravda (diss. 1913).• Lapwing bird (diss. 1912.).