Exhibit No…

11 hrs. 22 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Boris Vasilyev

Narrator Stanislav Kontsevich

Description

This collection includes works by Boris Vasiliev united by common themes of conscience, love, memory, and personal responsibility to oneself and to the world around us.

The novella “Don’t Shoot the White Swans” tells the story of Yegor Polushkin—a man of extraordinary spiritual purity who strives to live by truth, goodness, and justice, despite mockery and alienation. He tries to protect a small corner of living nature—an озеро (lake) with swans—but comes up against indifference and the merciless cynicism of poachers.

In the story “Exhibit No…,” the fate of Anna Fyodorovna is shown: a mother who lost her only son in the war. Her front-line letters become her support and the meaning of her life, but over time what had been sacred turns into an impersonal museum “exhibit.”

The collection also includes the stories “Corridas in Proper Order,” “Cold, Cold…,” “The Living Queue,” and “The Magnificent Six.”

Boris Vasiliev’s books remind us that true human dignity is revealed not in loud words and showy feats, but in everyday decency, kindness, and the ability to preserve the purity of the soul.