Hyperboloid engineer Garina

The science fiction novel "Hyperboloid engineer Garin" Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1882-1945) is, speaking in today"s language, "easy reading", almost the series of the series. It was written in parts, and published with a continuation, and from 1927 to 1939 several times carefully corresponded the author in the mainstream of current policy. What we have at the exit: a talented engineer, shifted by a thirst for power over the world, creates a murderous apparatus, with the help of which an unbroken amount of gold mines from earthly depths. Wealth and adventurism lead the villain first to omnipotence, and then to collapse. The polar chapters of the novel are based on the real work and life of the famous geologist Nikolai Urvantsev, who explored the deposits of today"s “Norilsk Nickel”. But the current real lasers have no scientific attitude to the invented hyperboloid. And most importantly: “This novel, not wanting it, incorporated the pulse and the thrill of the era - the nervous world policy, the famous economic collapses, technological fantasies, the screening and shift of modernist searches, the horror and naivety of the post -war (or, as it was said then, the consistency) Mira "(Ivan Tolstoy).

The accompanying article by Ivan Tolstoy

Ivan Nikitich Tolstoy (born 1958) - grandson of A. N. Tolstoy and M. L. Lozinsky. Graduate Filfak LSU. Literature historian and essayist. Editor of historical and cultural programs for "Radio Liberty". Screenwriter and leading cycle "Historical Travels of Ivan Tolstoy" on the Culture TV channel. The author of six books, including Pasternak’s Roman: "Dr. Zhivago" between the KGB and the CIA "and the Bedlam as Bethlehem: conversations of lovers of the Russian word."