The Blue Star

30 hrs. 4 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Boris Zaitsev

Narrator Evgeny Ternovsky

Description

The first period of Zaytsev’s творчості concludes with the novella “The Blue Star” (1918), born out of “Peaceful, quiet Moscow—post-Czech, artistic, and partly bohemian Moscow, the friends of poetry and Italy—future Orthodox Moscow” (“About Myself”). Through bright melancholy, the fates of the heroes (partly reminiscent of Dostoevsky’s characters), and images of literary and theatrical life, there is a sense of foreboding about the collapse of this fragile world.

“The Blue Star” is the second part of a trilogy united by a common central image and the characters. The trilogy also includes the novel “Distant Shores” and the novella “A Star Over Boulogne.”

Содержание:

- Romanenko A. Earthly Wanderings of Boris Zaytsev
Novellas and short stories
- Wolves
- A Dream
- Bread, People, and Earth
- Black Winds
- Tomorrow
- Colonel Rozov
- Death
- Pearls
- Gusta
Provincial stories
- Exile
- Student Benediktov
- Sin
- Acting Happiness
- Fields of Elysium
- Cassandra
- The Homeless
- The Goddess
- Earthly Sadness
- Travelers
- Ghosts
- In memory of Yu. B.
- Autumn Light
- Blue Star
- A Strange Journey
- The Street of Saint Nicholas
- A Light Burden
- Vendée Epilogue
- A Star Over Boulogne
- A Conversation with Zinaida
From the memoirs
- Shadows are benevolent
- In memory of Chekhov
- Leonid Andreev
- Sergei Glagol
- “Dawn”
- Youth — Ivan Bunin
- “1908” — Rome
- Yuli Bunin
- About Maxim Gorky
- Balmont
- Alexander Benois
- Gogol in Prechistenka
- In memory of Ivan and Vera Bunin
- 13 years
- Return from All-Night Vigil
- About Remizov
- About Turgenev
- Flaubert in Moscow
- Three Comets
- A Word at the Pushkin Evening May 6
- Praise for the Book
- Paustovsky
- The End of Petrarch
- “We, the soldiers…” Notes of the Hat
- Officers (1917)