The curse of the beast

The young man in search of saving coolness looks into the zoological garden and becomes a victim of the mysterious curse of the beast dying in captivity ...
A brilliant pilot is obsessed with a thirst for forever merge with a frantically beloved celestial element ...
The mischievous marine feature decides to add fun to a boring rural wedding, but on his own, truly damn little one ...

Mysticism invariably occupied an important place in Leonid Andreev’s work - both in his prose and in dramaturgy. Some of his works related to this literary direction were accepted by criticism and readers unconditionally, some caused a noisy scandal. Some gravitate towards a philosophical parable, others - to classical “horrors”, others - to the horrors of ironic, but all without exception are marked by power, strength and undoubted originality of the author’s talent