From Moscow..
3 hrs. 43 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Pyotr Aleshkovsky
Author
Pyotr Aleshkovsky
Narrator
Aleksey Upshinskiy
Narrator
Aleksey Upshinskiy
Description
A journey is not just curiosity—it is also an attempt to catch echoes of former times that can be heard anywhere in the world. The destinies of the people who lived here, their characters and behavioral norms, their culture do not disappear, but are melted down, adapted to new times, preserving ancient foundations. The author of the book, well-known writer Petr Aleshkovsky, is something like an archaeologist: besides trying to hear and understand the people he meets, he also carries out excavations within his own soul. His travel essays search for what is important and typical in our history—what could clarify why today we live the way we do and not otherwise. The Far North and the mountains of Armenia— the first Christian country in the world, which until recently had been part of the vast USSR; an expedition to Sakhalin Island to the indigenous Nivkhs, to the Russian Klondike, where greed seems to rule everything; a train Moscow–Vladivostok that repeats the path of settling a still half-empty continent inhabited by our fellow citizens. They live far, far away from Moscow…
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