Mabet. The Story of a Man of the Taiga

8 hrs. 41 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexander Grigorenko

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

Mæbeth the Nenets—called by his people the beloved of God—seemed to have been born for others’ envy. He never knew misfortune; his luck, like the polar sun, never dipped below the horizon. He despised human passions—so easy and beautiful was his life. Living without sorrow, Mæbeth reached old age, but one day, after a victorious hunt, the messenger of death came for him and led him to the border between the world of the living and the world of the dead, where God’s beloved learns that he didn’t live his own life—rather, his unsetting happiness was only a game, a pastime for bored gods… To return to people and find himself, Mæbeth decides to go through terrible ordeals—eleven “plagues” of the taiga hell—and his fate becomes a saving message for people.