The City

4 hrs. 28 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Andrey Zagortsev

Narrator Roman Volkov

Description

The city stood for a long time. Years drifted past slowly, sometimes bursting with bloody outbursts. But the city healed its wounds and went on living its measured provincial life. People laughed and cried, loved and hated, worked and rested. People LIVED!! But one day, people took up weapons. They took them—and for a long time did not let them go. And the city ceased to exist. Only its name remained—THUNDERING.

A young lieutenant, a recent graduate, is thrown into war. The first Chechen war. The most terrifying days of the first assault on Grozny. We know about those events from television reports, newspaper articles, hysterical screams of the soldiers’ mothers’ committee, and the command’s lies. But only those who were in the thick of it themselves know what it was really like. This book is, more likely, a documentary testimony with elements of fiction. It was exactly that way.