For the first time in Russian literature, on the pages of Vatslav Mikhalsky’s novel-epopee “Spring and Carthage,” Moscow and Carthage—Russia and Tunisia; Russians, Arabs, and French—met. They came together in the fates of the novel’s main heroines, Maria and Alexandra, daughters of an admiral of the Russian Imperial Fleet.
“The Temple of Concord likely rose on one of the Carthaginian hills, next to the Temple of Eshmun. We are only beginning to grasp the phenomenon of Carthage, whose republican institutions, economic concepts, and desire for peace seem astonishingly modern today.” — Madeline Ur-Meydan, chief curator of the France museums.