Vasiliy Domrachyov

Un groupe de scientifiques est envoyé sur Arkanar, une planète placée sous le joug d'un régime tyrannique à une époque qui ressemble étrangement au Moyen-Âge. Tandis que les intellectuels et les artistes sont persécutés, les chercheurs ont pour mot d'ordre de ne pas infléchir le cours politique et historique des événements. Le mystérieux Don Rumata à qui le peuple prête des facultés divines, va déclencher une guerre pour sauver quelques hommes du sort qui leur est réservé…

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in a neighboring country, where they decide to have a good time anyway but end up leaving their vodka and fishing equipment behind.

This is a collection of portraits: 23 short stories about the Mari women, a sort of Decameron suspended between magic and realism, in which the Autonomous Republic of the Marij El serves as a backdrop for the collective history of a people of ancient tradition. A journey into a mysterious and unknown part of the world.

Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.

Young soldiers of the Soviet Internal Troops are brutally bullied during their time of Dedovshchina(hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Fliora, jeune garçon d'un village de Biélorussie occupé par les troupes nazies, s'engage, bien que trop jeune, chez les partisans. Il va découvrir l'amour, la fraternité, la souffrance, la guerre.