Czardas of Death

11 hrs. 52 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Tatyana Bespalova

Narrator Andrey Leonov

Description

The Battle of Voronezh during the Great Patriotic War lasted 212 days, and the invaders never managed to cross to the left bank of the river of the same name. Meanwhile, Matvey Podlesnykh, a participant in the Imperial War, a Knight of St. George, became a traitor. In fact, he never sympathized with Soviet power. In peacetime he lived away from people, occupied himself with hunting and fortune-telling; in wartime he began catching his fellow villagers—partisans—who carried out sabotage in the rear of the fascist troops. Once he even managed to capture his old, worst enemy—the Red Professor Rodion Tabunschikov. But in early winter of 1942, fate—evil fate—unexpectedly brought them both together with Lieutenant Daniel Gabel, a Hungarian army officer known throughout the Voronezh province as the Killer of the Russians. And now, in a remote village west of Voronezh, lost among fields and groves, burnt out and lifeless, the irreconcilable enemies unite in a deadly struggle fueled by a shared hatred of the enemy.