Zvyagintsev A.G. The terrible favorite of fortune, or following the rules of his time

Abstract:  As I’d been doing for ages, one Saturday I dropped in the “Moskva” bookstore. In the second-hand department, among lots and lots of books, I suddenly noticed a massive, thickly brown volume in a heavy, as if armored, cover. Lev Romanovich Sheinin was a person with an unusual biography and an amazing fate. That time he interested me also because I was working on the novel-chronicle about the Nuremberg trials, in which Sheinin had participated and even had been drawn into a serious intrigue, which eventually turned very sadly for him… Lev Romanovich Sheinin died more than forty years ago, and only few people now remember his past deeds and sufferings, but his books are still republished and read with a huge interest. His name is associated with creative work, which, according to him, cured his soul and helped him to live. “Only in creative work, - said an outstanding Russian lawyer and writer Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni, - there is a joy. All the rest is a dust and vanity”. How right was he…The author of the article uses the formal-logical and the structural-functional methods of cognition.

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