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The Winter Road
''The Winter Road'' (russian: Зимняя дорога, ''Zimnaya doroga'') is a documentary novel by Leonid Yuzefovich first published in September 2015. In 2016 the book won First Prize of the Big Book (award), Big Book Award and the National Bestseller Literary Prize. Overview The plot of ''The Winter Road'' is completely devoid of fiction and based on real events. Yuzefovich studied historical documents and personally interpreted this historical event. The novel has the author's subtitle ''General A. N. Pepelyaev and anarchist I. Ya. Strod in Yakutia. 1922—1923. Documentary novel'' (russian: Генерал А. Н. Пепеляев и анархист И. Я. Строд в Якутии. 1922—1923 годы. Документальный роман). References 2015 Russian novels Novels set during the Russian Civil War {{2010s-war-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Yuzefovich
Leonid Abramovich Yuzefovich (russian: Леонид Абрамович Юзефович, born December 18, 1947 in Moscow) is a Russian writer known for the series of crime fiction stories taking place in pre-Revolution Russian Empire. He also writes non-fiction books about history, and currently adapts his stories for TV serials. In 1975, he started working as a history teacher at a Moscow school and only retired in 2004 despite being in love with teaching. In 1981 he earned his Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) with his thesis on Russian diplomatic etiquette of the 15th-17th centuries. His early fiction works were occasionally published in the USSR through the late 1970s and 1980s but he mostly owed his initial popularity to the well-distributed non-fiction book ''The Sovereign of the Desert'' about Roman Ungern von Sternberg, issued in 1993. It influenced Victor Pelevin's novel ''Chapayev and Void'', issued in 1996. He gained more popularity when in 2001 he switched to detective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
