"Silence" - a story by Georgy Ivanovich Chulkov (1879-1939), poet, prose writer, publicist of the Silver Age of Russian literature . His active activity fell on the heyday of symbolism, a poetic direction built on allegories. Chulkov was a famous person in the circles of symbolists, he had a close acquaintance with A. C. Block. The fruit of his philosophical thought is the theory of "mystical anarchism" about the inner freedom of the individual from any forms of control. Artist Yeniseev and his new friend Luganov live in a provincial city on the Volga River. Life here is measured and a bit boring . Engaging in church painting, Yeniseev meets the daughters of Luganov - Tatiana and Antonina . Courageous, desperate Tatiana falls in love with the artist and comes to him for secret dates. However, Yeniseeva is attracted to the mysterious, inaccessible nun Tonya. In his life, D. Chulkov created a lot of unique works . [ Among them is the novel “The Butterfly”, mystical novels “The Voice from the Grave”, “The Sea Princess”, an autobiographical cycle “Years of Travels”, which contained essays on various topics “The Crisis of Decadence”, “The New Way”, “The Torches”, “Questions of Life”, biographical stories about contemporaries (“L. N. Andreev", "V. I. Bryusov", "Alexander Blok", "Fedor Sologub", "M. N. Ermolova").