Finalist of the “Big Book,” “Russian Booker,” and “National Bestseller” awards
Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel “Laurus” about the life of a medieval healer became a literary event of 2013 (awards “Big Book” and “Yasnaya Polyana”), was translated into many languages. The next novels—“The Aviator” and “Brisbane”—also became bestsellers.
“Soloviev and Larionov” is an early novel by Vodolazkin, written in line with his main theme: the collision of times, and ultimately, the overcoming of time.
Young historian Soloviev plunges headfirst into another era, recreating the story of the life of the white general Larionov—and it somehow begins to affect his own life. And then, through a contemporary academic conference, Yalta of the 1920s comes into view, along with the Crimea burning in the Civil War…