The Candle Tower
8 hrs. 28 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Tatyana Korsakova
Author
Tatyana Korsakova
Narrator
Grigory Metelitsa
Narrator
Grigory Metelitsa
Description
Everything is wonderful in the Gorisvetovo estate! A restored house, a well-kept park, a greenhouse with amazing plants, tennis courts, and horseback rides. And the apotheosis of originality—the Candle Tower, created according to the design of the genius August Berg. A paradise on earth!
By the efforts of the new owners, the dream of the former mistress Agniya Gorisvetova came true: more than a century ago, she founded in the estate a shelter for gifted orphaned children. First, a shelter. Then a summer camp for talented youth. Nowadays, it’s an elite country school. Everything for the children! Always for the children!
Only the children disappear… Children die… Children lose reason and the spark given by God… And in dark stormy nights, on the viewing platform of the Candle Tower, a blindingly bright flame flares up. The legend says this is how Lightbearers are born. The legend, however, is silent about whose will brings them into this world—and what they take with them when they leave.
Miroslava is one of those talented and promising girls. Both talent and hopes—and the memory taken away thirteen years ago by the Candle man—the elusive killer, an accomplice to the very darkness. And now, after years, the Candle man returns. The otherworldly fire lights up in the tower again. And an adult Miroslava decides to deal with both her own past and with the centuries-old evil that has been lying in wait in the estate.
By the efforts of the new owners, the dream of the former mistress Agniya Gorisvetova came true: more than a century ago, she founded in the estate a shelter for gifted orphaned children. First, a shelter. Then a summer camp for talented youth. Nowadays, it’s an elite country school. Everything for the children! Always for the children!
Only the children disappear… Children die… Children lose reason and the spark given by God… And in dark stormy nights, on the viewing platform of the Candle Tower, a blindingly bright flame flares up. The legend says this is how Lightbearers are born. The legend, however, is silent about whose will brings them into this world—and what they take with them when they leave.
Miroslava is one of those talented and promising girls. Both talent and hopes—and the memory taken away thirteen years ago by the Candle man—the elusive killer, an accomplice to the very darkness. And now, after years, the Candle man returns. The otherworldly fire lights up in the tower again. And an adult Miroslava decides to deal with both her own past and with the centuries-old evil that has been lying in wait in the estate.
