Discovery of the World. Book One

13 hrs. 30 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Vasiliy Smirnov

Narrator Irina Vlasova

Vasily Smirnov worked on this novel for many years of his life. Some parts of the work were published, but in its completed form this novel was released in 1979 for the first time. With the author’s characteristic poetic touch, it tells anew about Russian peasantry—how it moved toward revolution and took part in it. The writer paints vivid pictures of life in a Upper Volga village awakened by the Bolsheviks, marching in the revolution behind Lenin. Under the leadership of soldiers from the front lines and “Piter” workers who returned from the city, they fight the SRs, the kulaks, and—through organization—form a Soviet council in their village, seize the deserted landed gentry’s land and forest, and begin collectivization. At the center of the story is the village teenager Shurka Sokolov. Everything that happens in the village in pre-revolutionary years and in the stormy seventeenth year is seen through his eyes. In the actions and deeds of adults, Shurka discovers a new world. He enters it as the future master and builder of the new world.

1. Discovery of the World. Book One 2. Discovery of the World. Book 2 (narrated by Irina Vlasova) 3. Discovering the World. Book 3 (narrated by Irina Vlasova) 4. Discovery of the World, Book 4 (narrated by Irina Vlasova) 5. Discovery of the World. Book 5 (narrated by Irina Vlasova)