A Candidate for Buddhahood

9 hrs. 0 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Sergey Letov

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

The book by the legendary Sergey Letov, “A Candidate for Buddhahood.”
A cult musician, chemist, and inventor in the space industry speaks simply and even naively about his life, his family, his relationship with his brother, interesting encounters, and the musicians he happened to meet.
Sergey Letov’s life is full of unexpected turns, acquaintances, and people.
This is the story of a man who has much to tell, many to remember, and much to share.
“Next to our barracks stood the administration building of Omsk, where Kolchak’s government had once been housed, the mayor’s house, the drama theater, the prison where Dostoevsky had been held (popularly called the ‘fortress’).
Not far away was the House of Officers, where my grandmother first took me to learn to play the piano.
Of course, there could be no piano in our barracks—we lived in terrible cramped conditions.
The windows looked out onto the house of MVD employees, from where a bullet once flew through the window, smashing a bottle of Red Moscow perfume standing on the dressing table: policemen’s children had been playing with weapons.
They were shooting at a matchbox on the fifth-floor balcony, but the bullet ricocheted off the railing and flew into the window of our barracks.”