We Will Say Goodbye on the Bridge

9 hrs. 32 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Irina Muravyova

Narrator Tatyana Telegina

For the third part of Irina Muravyova’s family saga, the lines by Akhmatova would suit best: “To us, frantic, bitter, and proud—who dare not lift our eyes to the ground— a bird sang with blissful voice how we protected each other.” The heroes whose lives intertwine inside this novel are precisely “frantic, bitter, and proud people,” with whom the time that has come (the 1920s!) plays its most terrible and most азартні games. The goal of these games is to “freeze out” the soul’s luminous core, to make a person carry on reports, betray, lie, and drink himself into oblivion. The mystic and occultist Barchenko, returning to Moscow from the Kola Peninsula, tries to survive himself and to save Dina from death—Dina has already fallen into the hands of the Lubyanka after signing a terrible paper about secret cooperation with the Cheka…

1. The Young Lady (narrated by Evgenia Ionkina) 2. The Chill of Bird Cherry (narrated by Irina Vorobyova) 3. We Will Say Goodbye on the Bridge