Born of the Storm

The MediaKniga studio presents an audiobook based on the novel “Born by the Storm”—one of the best examples of Soviet classical literature at the world level by the great Soviet writer Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky. The work has been adapted twice with the same title in 1957 and 2008. The book is read by a popular artist and well-known dubbing actor Sergey Gorbunov.

“I can’t talk about Ostrovsky without feeling the deepest respect. If we weren’t in the USSR, I would say: ‘This is a saint.’ Religion didn’t create a more beautiful face. Here is the evidence that saints are born not only by religion. Enough of just a hot conviction—without hope for future reward. Nothing except satisfaction from the awareness of a harsh duty fulfilled.” These words were said by Andre Gide after his trip to the Soviet Union and meeting Ostrovsky.

“I want to— I must finish ‘Born by the Storm.’ That’s why I tremble over every hour of mine… My blind eyes hurt. Imagine sand poured over your eyelids… It burns, it’s awkward, it hurts. They offer to take out my eyes. They say it will be easier. For a while. But without eyes it becomes completely terrifying… One fear: the illness is creeping toward the brain, toward headquarters. That will be irreparable”… Ostrovsky said this a few weeks before his death.

“… in the second and third books… [N.A. Ostrovsky] wanted to show the growth of the partisan movement and the work of the Komsomol in the underground, Petlyurite forces, the Polish-Soviet War of 1920, and the liberation of Ukraine from the White Poles.”

— V. Kin

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