Louis Henri Boussenard’s name in Russia has long been known; in 1911, a collected works edition in 40 volumes was printed. Where the boundless imagination of this Frenchman didn’t take us! We witnessed the stormy youth of Henry IX. Together with the captain of “Screw the Rascal” (Survivor?), he fought in the Anglo-Burgundian War, and tracked the “Diamond Thieves.”
“Under the Southern Cross” is a hymn to Australia… And that means mysterious aborigines of the green continent, the gold rush, bandits hanged and, of course, again—an touching, pure love won’t let us sleep until morning!