White Nights

Evgeny Gagarin is one of the most mysterious names in the history of 20th-century Russian literature. In Russia, his works were first published only in 1991. Very little is known about his life. Many facts from his difficult biography remain unknown, and many events and facts are not confirmed by documents. Living and working in Arkhangelsk Oblast, he talked a lot with families that the Bolsheviks had exiled from Moscow. In the future, that found reflection in the writer’s works. The stories presented in this collection are united by a common theme: the tragic changes in post-revolutionary Russia and the people who had no place in the new Soviet reality.