A Year as Long as a Life
16 hrs. 37 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Elena Arsenyeva
Author
Elena Arsenyeva
Narrator
Kristina Parfionova
Narrator
Kristina Parfionova
Paris, the Tuileries Park. An elegant elderly woman watches children and their parents strolling. This beautiful woman could easily be her daughter—there’s something familiar in her.
Could be… if not for that. Rіta Aksakova Le Bois plunges into memories. Such a long life behind her, and yet it flashed by like one year… World War II, in Paris the fascists: young Rita stands before a church altar—she has a secret wedding…
Year 1965: Rita in Russia, in the Volga city of Ensk—new feelings break into her heart. But she can’t love Georgy Aksakov! He is twice her age. And in the coincidence of their surnames there’s no accident… Yet love was there—most of all, the best, the brightest…
Could be… if not for that. Rіta Aksakova Le Bois plunges into memories. Such a long life behind her, and yet it flashed by like one year… World War II, in Paris the fascists: young Rita stands before a church altar—she has a secret wedding…
Year 1965: Rita in Russia, in the Volga city of Ensk—new feelings break into her heart. But she can’t love Georgy Aksakov! He is twice her age. And in the coincidence of their surnames there’s no accident… Yet love was there—most of all, the best, the brightest…
