The Borodino Field
The novel "The Borodino Field" tells of one of the greatest events in the country’s combat history—the Battle of Borodino in 1812—and looks at it from a new, unexpected angle: through the fates of young officers whose names later became the pride of Russia. Here there are not only gripping battle scenes, but also the life, feelings, thoughts, dreams, and deeds of ordinary and great participants in this landmark battle.
Marching Across the Sun’s Path
The novella "Marching Across the Sun’s Path" is about the difficult and astonishing fate of the Russian land-explorer Semen Dezhnyov, a noble Cossack from Lena. It tells of the development of Siberian expanses, the discovery of new, unknown lands, peoples, and rivers—Oymyakon, Kolyma, Indigirka, Anadyr…
The unifying idea of these works is a great, inexhaustible, victorious love for one’s Fatherland.