Graveyard Tales

7 hrs. 2 min.

Mystery, Thrillers & Action

Language Russian

Author Boris Akunin

Narrators Grigory Chkhartishvili, Alexander Filippenko

Narrator Grigory Chkhartishvili

Narrator Alexander Filippenko

Description

In essence, this audiobook “Cemetery Stories” is the product of collective creativity and equal collaboration of two writers—one real and one invented. Documentary essays, which should be attributed to Grigory Chkhartishvili, are devoted to six of the most famous necropolises in the world.
These sketches alternate with fictional detective novellas written “in the hand” of Boris Akunin, and the action takes place in the very same cemeteries. Listeners are offered an entertaining game staged by “Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” of modern Russian literature.

In this audiobook you will meet Saltychikha, a well-known lady-landowner known for her bloody deeds, the founder of Marxism, the writer O. Wilde, who did not hide his love that wasn’t quite traditional, who knew the true success of his literary career and ended his life in poverty and oblivion—and even a person, as Boris Akunin claims, who “doesn’t know how to be happy”—the detective Erast Fandorin…