The Pale Horse. The Black Horse

7 hrs. 25 min.

Language Russian

Author Boris Savinkov

Narrator Alexander Andrienko

Description

V. Ropshin — this literary pseudonym conceals Boris Viktorovich Savinkov, one of the most vivid figures in the history of our country, a fierce opponent of the Bolsheviks and Bolshevism, one of the leaders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and in particular its Combat Organization, whose victims included such high-ranking figures as Plehve and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.
You are in for the story of young people who turned to terrorism, their agonizing moral searching and painful disillusionment. The most famous Russian terrorist, Savinkov reveals in his celebrated memoirs the psychology of a professional ideological killer, recounting how and, above all, why he himself killed. Pain, cynicism, fear and blood, a constant striving to divide the world into "ours" and "theirs"… Savinkov's novellas are above all an attempt to understand where the roots of Russian terrorism lie and why once peaceful, quite harmless people one day take up pistols and bombs.