The March on Bar-Khoto
6 hrs. 8 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Leonid Yuzefovich
Author
Leonid Yuzefovich
Narrator
Grigory Perel
Narrator
Grigory Perel
Description
In this new gripping story by a laureate of the “Big Book” and “National Bestseller” literary awards, real history and artistic fiction are skillfully intertwined, as is a great love and a fight for freedom. The plot, like its characters, is fictional—but the setting is real, and the emotions are brighter and more alive than any documentary record.
The main character is the Russian officer Boris Antonovich Solodovnikov. While in exile in Transbaikalia, he writes memoirs about events from twenty years earlier. In 1912–1914 he served as a military adviser in the Mongolian army, when Mongolia defended its independence from China. His recollections weave together the siege of the Bar-Hoto fortress occupied by the Chinese, his love for the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, World War I, his expulsion from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s. Solodovnikov masterfully describes Mongolian nature, traditions, and way of life. He reflects on the clash of morals and values between the East and the West, rethinking his own life and sharing with us the heavy but invaluable experience of living through an era of global upheavals.
He writes: “I… have never felt freer anywhere and anytime than in Mongolia. I didn’t find there what I was looking for, I didn’t write a novel, I didn’t become a Buddhist, but—unlike Petersburg… I lived among living people, saw all the colors of the world, walked alongside death, loved and was happy.”
The heroic, penetrating voice of Grigory Perel virtuously conveys the atmosphere of a new, exciting book by a master of historical prose.
The main character is the Russian officer Boris Antonovich Solodovnikov. While in exile in Transbaikalia, he writes memoirs about events from twenty years earlier. In 1912–1914 he served as a military adviser in the Mongolian army, when Mongolia defended its independence from China. His recollections weave together the siege of the Bar-Hoto fortress occupied by the Chinese, his love for the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, World War I, his expulsion from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s. Solodovnikov masterfully describes Mongolian nature, traditions, and way of life. He reflects on the clash of morals and values between the East and the West, rethinking his own life and sharing with us the heavy but invaluable experience of living through an era of global upheavals.
He writes: “I… have never felt freer anywhere and anytime than in Mongolia. I didn’t find there what I was looking for, I didn’t write a novel, I didn’t become a Buddhist, but—unlike Petersburg… I lived among living people, saw all the colors of the world, walked alongside death, loved and was happy.”
The heroic, penetrating voice of Grigory Perel virtuously conveys the atmosphere of a new, exciting book by a master of historical prose.
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