Behind Vladimir Orlov is more than one decade of writing. Following the traditions of Hoffmann, Gogol, and Bulgakov, he has his own unique voice and holds the status of a classic of contemporary literature.
Although all events and characters in V. Orlov’s novels are fictional, that doesn’t mean the story told in “The Apothecary” couldn’t have happened in our multi-variant reality after all. This is a novel about love, about a person’s relationship with nature—full of riddles and secrets—and with one’s own existence within it.