Hot Snow
17 hrs. 8 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Yuriy Bondarev
Author
Yuriy Bondarev
Narrator
Yury Zaborovsky
Narrator
Yury Zaborovsky
Description
In the novel by the well-known Soviet writer M. Alekseev, awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR, “Cherry Pit” vividly and poetically depicts the distinctive life of the Russian village—an inextinguishable thirst of people to make love happy.
“The Cherry Pit” is a novel about the life of several generations of a peasant family. The action begins in the 1880s and ends in the years of the Great Patriotic War. A young village man, Mikhail Kharlamov, planted an apple orchard by the mysterious Cherry Pit. This orchard symbolizes the bright path the Russian peasantry walks after the victory of Soviet power. The Cherry Pit embodies all the old, dark forces that ruled in the village.
“The Cherry Pit” is a novel about the life of several generations of a peasant family. The action begins in the 1880s and ends in the years of the Great Patriotic War. A young village man, Mikhail Kharlamov, planted an apple orchard by the mysterious Cherry Pit. This orchard symbolizes the bright path the Russian peasantry walks after the victory of Soviet power. The Cherry Pit embodies all the old, dark forces that ruled in the village.
