Solovyov and Larionov

Водолазкин Евгений Германович

Жанр Проза

Год 2018

ISBN: 978-1-78607-035-7

Обьем книги: Полная версия

Shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize and Russia’s National Big Book Award Larionov. A general of the Imperial Russian Army who mysteriously avoided execution by the Bolsheviks when they swept to power and went on to live a long life in Yalta, leaving behind a vast heritage of memoirs. Solovyov. The young history student who travels to Crimea, determined to find out how Larionov evaded capture after the 1917 revolution. With wry humour, Eugene Vodolazkin, one of Russia’s foremost contemporary writers, takes readers on a fascinating journey through a momentous period of Russian history, interweaving the intriguing story of two men from very different backgrounds that ultimately asks whether we can really understand the present without first understanding the past. [Contains tables.]