Putin told what he would write a novel about

Vladimir Putin, at a plenary session of the International Cultural Forum, answered the question of what novel he would write now and what he would call it.

“There was a case in history when Gorky, or if I’m wrong, correct me, came to Tolstoy, and Lev Nikolaevich asked him what he was writing about. Gorky says: “I’m not writing, there’s nothing to write about.” And Tolstoy said: “Write about why there is nothing to write about. This is a very deep thing,” Putin said.

However, today, in his opinion, “there are a lot of topics.” “No matter how outwardly our life today looks, there are always, at all times, at turning points in history or in stagnant times, eternal themes,” Putin said, and after a theatrical pause he added, “One of them is love.”