Долг и примирение. Борис Зайцев. К 145-летию со дня рождения писателя

The longest-lived of the Russian writers and first-wave émigrés, Boris Zaitsev lived to be 90 years old and died in Paris later than all his contemporaries in the pre-revolutionary literary circle. Zaitsev was a contemporary not only of Gorky, Bunin, and Leonid Andreyev, but also of the late Leo Tolstoy. He was friends with Anton Chekhov. It was Chekhov, as well as Leonid Andreyev, who supported the young Zaitsev in his writing career. It was a long and complex one, like his entire life, which began in Oryol and ended in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery in France.