Dmitry Bykov-novelist, poet, publicist, radio and TV journalist. His lectures in the 'Direct speech' cycle are a great success. The author of many original novels and literary biographies of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava and Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky. Twice winner of the 'Big book' award.In the novel 'Spelling' Dmitry Bykov paints a picture of post-revolutionary Petrograd. Hunger, cold, books are burning in the furnaces, no one yet understands what the new time will bring, but they have already excluded the letter 'Yat', and with it — Russian literacy. Fear and the search for truth, honor and betrayal, special humor, special love 'abyss on the edge'. In these settings live the characters of an exciting adventurous story.'Spelling' is the second novel of the 'O-trilogy'.'Spelling' is probably the most unusual novel about the Russian revolution, a novel about spelling reform from the point of view of the letter, about the collapse of the world — from the point of view of a person who no longer has a place in it. This is a book written on reliable historical material, but in General, it is much more about what will happen now. Right now. Here with you.Dmitry Bykov