Wedding night

Ivan Shamyakin is one of the most popular Belarusian prose writers, who knew how to feel and convey life in its various manifestations. In the story "Wedding Night" the writer skillfully combines war and love, showing how in the most difficult circumstances people continue to desire simple things - well-being, warmth and human happiness. This is a story about trials and hopes, about the human soul that lives even in the most difficult times.

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The extraordinary popularity of Ivan Shamyakin's prose is explained by the all-pervasiveness with which he traced the everyday life and soul of a person, able to peer into an architect's workshop, a surgeon's operating room, a party functionary's office, and a mechanic's house with equal success.

Everywhere the writer found life and man with his simple desires – well-being and happiness. In the story "The Wedding Night" the master's hand combined two seemingly incomparable themes – war and love.