A Russian person is one who always remembers their origins, knows and values the great Russian language given to the great people. They are familiar with the history of their country, honoring its great pages and heroes. They know the native literature, recognized worldwide, and always remember that they live for Russia. A believer in God, they remain loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church, which connects them to Russia and its glorious past, guiding them into the future as a faithful navigator.

Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelev, born on October 3, 1873, in Moscow and died on June 24, 1950, in the Pokrovsky Monastery in France, was a Russian writer, publicist, and Orthodox thinker from the Moscow merchant family of Shmelevs. He represented the conservative-Christian direction in Russian literature and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1931. After the revolution in 1918, Shmelev moved with his family to Alushta, where he initially lived in the boarding house 'Villa Rose' and later purchased a house. In the autumn of 1920, when Crimea was occupied by the Red Army, he was arrested by the Bolsheviks. Despite his pleas, his son Sergey, an officer of the imperial army, was executed, which was a heavy blow for Shmelev. Based on these experiences, he wrote the epic 'The Sun of the Dead,' which brought him fame in Europe. In 1922, Shmelev left the RSFSR, first moving to Berlin and then to Paris, where he lived until the end of his days.

The last years of his life were overshadowed by illness and poverty. He died on June 24, 1950, from a heart attack and was buried at the cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois in Paris. In 2000, according to his last will, his ashes and those of his wife were transported to their homeland and buried in the necropolis of the Moscow Don Monastery next to the graves of his family members.