The Bridgehead
16 hrs. 32 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Viktor Astafyev
Author
Viktor Astafyev
Narrator
Yury Zaborovsky
Narrator
Yury Zaborovsky
The second book of the novel “Cursed and Murdered” describes the crossing of the Dnieper and the battle for the Velikokrynytsia bridgehead near the village of Veliki Krynytsia.
Viktor Petrovich Astafyev (1924—2001) was an outstanding Russian writer, a laureate of the USSR and RSFSR State Prizes. In 1942 he volunteered for the front. In 1943, after finishing infantry school, he was sent to the front line and remained an ordinary soldier until the very end of the war.
On the front, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Medal “For Courage.”
What he experienced during the war, the war as Viktor Astafyev saw it at the front, became the central theme of his work. He filled the novel “Cursed and Murdered” with incredible energy—the energy of resistance to untimely death. With this novel, Astafyev brought his reflections on war to a conclusion as a “crime against reason.”
For more than half a century, V. P. Astafyev nurtured his novel about the Great Patriotic War. The novel became an open revelation about Russia—about how Russian people relate to people of other nationalities, about the greatest tragedy of a de-peopled nation sent to fight, weakened by Communist genocide, repression, and experiments.
Viktor Petrovich Astafyev (1924—2001) was an outstanding Russian writer, a laureate of the USSR and RSFSR State Prizes. In 1942 he volunteered for the front. In 1943, after finishing infantry school, he was sent to the front line and remained an ordinary soldier until the very end of the war.
On the front, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Medal “For Courage.”
What he experienced during the war, the war as Viktor Astafyev saw it at the front, became the central theme of his work. He filled the novel “Cursed and Murdered” with incredible energy—the energy of resistance to untimely death. With this novel, Astafyev brought his reflections on war to a conclusion as a “crime against reason.”
For more than half a century, V. P. Astafyev nurtured his novel about the Great Patriotic War. The novel became an open revelation about Russia—about how Russian people relate to people of other nationalities, about the greatest tragedy of a de-peopled nation sent to fight, weakened by Communist genocide, repression, and experiments.
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