Sofia Petrovna
3 hrs. 49 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Lydia Chukovskaya
Author
Lydia Chukovskaya
Narrator
Elena Sherstneva
Narrator
Elena Sherstneva
Description
“The Party’s Twentieth Congress exposed the bloodied edge of burlap over stacks of corpses. Just that alone saved millions of living, half-dead people in the fifties—people in whose ‘heat’ life still held on for one more breath,” wrote Lidiya Korneyevna Chukovskaya. But long before that Congress, long before Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and “The Gulag Archipelago,” her husband—the repressed scientist—had her, the question troubling her: “What became of a person, what he endured, starting from the moment they took him out of his home—until the moment he returned to his family in the form of a certificate?” And another topic, too, never let her go: what had those who remained free, those the monstrous machine had spared, endured.
About this she wrote before the war and during the years when the campaign against cosmopolitanism resumed, during the brief Khrushchev “Thaw,” and in the era of stagnation, when everyone walked in step… It was the lonely voice of a person who dared to think otherwise. Who dared to think.
This is the subject of her story “Sofya Petrovna.”
About this she wrote before the war and during the years when the campaign against cosmopolitanism resumed, during the brief Khrushchev “Thaw,” and in the era of stagnation, when everyone walked in step… It was the lonely voice of a person who dared to think otherwise. Who dared to think.
This is the subject of her story “Sofya Petrovna.”
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