Cossack Graves

25 hrs. 4 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Pyotr Palamarchuk

Narrator Alexey Borzunov

Description

Pyotr Georgievich Palamarchuk (December 20, 1955 — February 14, 1998) was a Russian writer, literary scholar, historian, and lawyer.

He was born into the family of a naval officer, Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Palamarchuk.

He graduated from MGIMO (1978), then worked at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences. He defended a candidate thesis on the historical rights of Russia to the Arctic (1982). His first publication in 1982 in the journal “Literary Study” was the novella “One D erzhavin.”

In 1990 he signed the “Letter of the 74.”

From 1977 to 1996 he worked on the four-volume work “Forty Forties,” containing a brief illustrated history of all Moscow churches. The writer also authored literary research on the works of Gogol and Solzhenitsyn.

Winner of the Makaryev Prize (1997).

Palamarchuk belongs to patriotic writers; his work is closely connected with Russian history and Orthodoxy. <…> The main task for Palamarchuk has always been to try to understand the present based on the past—to perceive Russian history not as 70 years in the 20th century, but as at least a ten-century period of the nation’s development.