Stories from the Collection 'The System'

1 hr. 1 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Alexander Pokrovsky

Narrator Alexander Smollett

Description

Description: The collection «System» was published in 2004, immediately after «The Ship of Standing Away,» and in fact is its continuation. Pokrovsky wrote: “The fleet is a very conservative mechanism. If you take all the mechanisms in the world, including the clockwork ones, the fleet will still be the most conservative. That is, if it is the royal fleet, it does not accept the revolution; if it is Tsushima, it will fight to the last, regardless of the fact that its gunpowder is not the right kind. Sailors are the most distrustful people; they don’t accept anything on faith. And they are the most steadfast— they will fight with bare hands. The state can betray them; they will never betray the state. So if the enemy pushes in, then my Andrey Antonych will go out to meet him, even if it’s on a barge.”

Additional information: Here again, almost everything is about Andrey Antonych, Sergeich, and Sanya. In the printed book there is also «Stories from the Lower [world]» about the circus, and the mini-novel «System» about the cadet years at a naval school.