Swept Away by the Hurricane

A remake of Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind”

Margaret Mitchell’s famous novel “Gone with the Wind” has been revived in a plot set in Russia—during the turbulent nineties!

Scarlett O’Hara has had no shortage of trials, but our contemporary with a Russian name, Svetlana, is capable of bearing troubles and misfortunes with no less resilience and of fighting for a достойне життя for her family. The image of a woman living in Russia at the crossroads of two eras is as vivid and contradictory as Scarlett herself. The heroes of the great novel didn’t just dress in modern clothes and somehow cross the ocean—Tatiana Osiptsova, a laureate of the online premium “People’s Writer,” found historical parallels in our recent past, reviving the atmosphere of the “troubled times” of the late twentieth century…