Tobol. The Few Chosen

28 hrs. 58 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexey Ivanov

Narrator Ivan Litvinov

…The stories of individual people intertwine into the shared history of a country. And the country’s history is driven by the force of a furious struggle between the old and the new. And its deep energy is the tension of the eternal dispute between the Poet and the Tsar.

“Tobol. The Few Chosen” is the second book of Alexei Ivanov’s peplum novel “Tobol.” The bizarre threads of human destinies stretched through the first book have now been tied into knots.

Tsar Peter’s reforms have plowed through Siberia, and all who were “called” to these free lands now ask themselves: have they been “chosen” by Siberia? Fugitive Old Believers raise their fiery Ark—but will the souls of those who cursed themselves on earth ascend to heaven? Russian regiments march for gold to the distant Asian city of Yarkend—but will they overcome the vast steppes and the resistance of the Dzungar hordes? A stubborn metropolitan fights his way to the sacred idol of the natives through the resistance of taiga demons. By the secret signs of antiquity, a Tobolsk architect rescues from captivity the man he hates with all his heart. The all-powerful Siberian governor finds himself in the grip of the sovereign, who must decide what matters more: his own pride or the interests of the state?

1. Tobol. The Many Called (narrated by Sergey Dadyko) 2. Tobol. The Few Chosen 2.1. Thickets (narrated by Alexey Dankov)