Volga Flows Into the Caspian Sea

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VOLGA FLOWS INTO THE CASPIAN SEA

I, Boris Pilnyak, was born on October 11, 1894, in Mozhaysk, Russia. Of my works, what I want to say now is much more important to me, and I sacrifice the old effort if it comes to my aid. It doesn't matter what I (and we) have done, it's important what I (and we) will do; it's too early to take stock of our work, the collectivity of our work is necessary (and it was, and is, and will be), I grew out of Bely and Bunin, many do many things better than me, and I believe I have the right to take the best from them or what I can do better. It's not particularly important to me what will remain of me, but it has fallen to us to create Russian literature collectively, and that is a great duty. The "goals" are still necessary, I guess they should be purposeful and effective. And day by day, it becomes clearer to me that my writing job is not for the purpose of fame, honors, a pleasant life; writing is not a joyful job, it's almost manual labor. I was shot on April 21, 1938, at the Komunarka shooting range in Moscow, in the Soviet Union. ORGANIZER/SOURCE: Association for the Development of Arts "VULPE"