Hiking to Bar-Hoto
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Leonid Yuzefovich is a writer, historian, and the winner of the "Big Book" and "National Bestseller" awards. In his new book "Campaign to Bar-Khoto," he delves into his favorite Eastern theme, creating a fictional story with fictional characters set in real locations. The memoirs of a Russian officer, Captain Solodovnikov, who served as a military advisor in the Mongolian army from 1912 to 1914, intertwine the siege of the fortress of Bar-Khoto occupied by the Chinese, his love for the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, World War I, and his exile from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s. Here, the hero reevaluates his own life, and in doing so, reflects on the fate of a person in pivotal eras.
"I endured many inconveniences here, suffered from heat, cold, bad water, lice, boils, dysentery - but I never felt freer anywhere than in Mongolia. I didn't find what I was looking for there, didn't write a novel, didn't become a Buddhist, but unlike St. Petersburg, where the proximity to supreme power distorts the proportions of things, where ghosts pass themselves off as men and more often as women, where books ooze mist and the sound of gold buys the smell of food, where there is no truth, only expediency - here, on this barren land, I lived among the living, saw all the colors of the world, walked alongside death, loved, and was happy."
Author:
Author:Yuzefovich Leonid Abramovich
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Medical Books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Dimensions:
Dimensions:20.5x13.5x1.7 cm
Series:
Series:Prose by Leonid Yuzefovich
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-159208-0
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