Wedding night

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.