Tale of the Troika

6 hrs. 55 min.

Language Russian

Authors Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

Author Arkady Strugatsky

Author Boris Strugatsky

Narrator Mikhail Chernyak

The novella “The Tale of the Trio,” which at the time was sequentially rejected by all domestic journals and publishing houses—because of its social humor that was too brilliant for those times… The novella “The Tale of the Trio” reflected the social changes taking place in that still country of the late 1960s (and that determined the change in the “top brass’s” attitude toward the Strugatskys). Back then, the authors were, not yet unconsciously, hitting not at individual perversities, but at the totalitarian system bureaucratized through and through: the very title “Trio” suggests something closer to the Stalinist tribunals than to the romantic image of Russia as “Bird-Troika,” by N. Gogol.

1. Monday Begins on Saturday (narrated by Vladimir Levasheov) 1. Monday Starts on Saturday (narrated by Mikhail Chernyak) 2. Tale of the Troika 3. Tale of the Troika — 2 (narrated by Vladimir Levasheov)