Plat svyatoy Veroniki

Baronessa Gertrud fon Lefort (1876 - 1971), avtor bolee dvadcati knig - stihov, romanov i novell, - pochetnyy doktor teologii, "velichayshiy poet transcendentnosti nashego vremeni". Glavnye cherty ee tvorchestva - zahvatyvayuschaya duh glubina i virtuoznoe masterstvo, krasota i vazhnost' idey v sochetanii s izyskannym blagorodstvom formy. Kniga vklyuchaet v sebya roman "Plat svyatoy Veroniki" (1928) i naibolee izvestnye novelly: "Sud morya" (1947), "Preddverie neba" (1954), "Zhena Pilata" (1955), "Bashnya Postoyanstva" (1957), "Doch' Ieffaya" (1964).