About the book: 2015 / If we talk about asceticism in modern Russian literature, then these concepts are correlated primarily with the name of Valentin Rasputin. His prose, journalism, any speech in print is always conscience, pain and deep truth. And every time we waited for his revelation as truth. Starting from the late 1970s, Rasputin, at the forefront of time, opposed the diversion of the northern rivers, in defense of the purity of Baikal, raised the problems of the Russian village, in the 80s his articles “A Word on Patriotism” appeared, “Twilight of people”, “In the fate of nature is our destiny.” Rasputin is one of the authors of “A Word to the People”, published on the pages of the newspaper “Soviet Russia” in July 1991; in the most critical days for our country, he appeals from high tribunes for the salvation of the Motherland. The book of journalism of the great Russian writer covers the last thirty years of his life Russia, which, in his words, already existed with its arms twisted, on the ruins of its former power, when the “festival of freedom” and “the revelry of morals splashed out from the bottom” came, and national foundations and consciousness were destroyed. In the writer's journalism, in conversations with him published in periodicals, his prophetic view of the most painful problems and the future of Russia is revealed..