About the book: year / In this collection of early works by Ivan Novikov, for the first time after a long break, the novel "Golden Crosses" (1908) is reproduced, in which religious and mystical motifs. Early stories and tales (1905–1912) reflect the spiritual quest of different strata of society in the pre-revolutionary era. We think the reader will be interested in seeing the search for new bizarre forms characteristic of the Silver Age in some stories and the mature realism of Russian classical literature in others And finally, the long story “The Sacrifice” (1921) shows the first steps of the new regime. This story was published several times and caused fierce attacks on the author..