Oleg Osipov is a writer, playwright, screenwriter, and theatre director. His novel “Be It So!” takes us back to Moscow of 1931—Moscow that had forgotten about the famine of the 1920s, about the Red Terror, and about political feuds led by the great leader of all oppressed peoples…
The fast-paced, plot-driven novel “Be It So!” is devoted to one of the most wild and absurd episodes in Russian history from the standpoint of common sense: the destruction and demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the winter of 1931. Against the backdrop of this global event, the novel’s main conflicts unfold—where love and hatred both have their place, where clashes of worldviews, duty, and dishonor come to the fore…