Novellas

3 hrs. 54 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Georgy Chulkov

Narrator Alexander Samoylenko

Description

The farther we pushed north, the more the cold gripped us. The brandy we carried in flasks had already turned to ice. The horses kept stopping, choking in the icy blizzard. The chill was coming on— that state when it seems a pale giant has appeared and is smashing down his enormous club upon the earth, and the sky together with the ground drops into one common grave—the Ice Night. So passed thirty-three days. And one day at dawn we made out faint outlines of a city; but soon daylight faded, the world grew completely dark, and then dim lights began to flicker ahead…