Tsar, Tsarevich, Cobbler, Rebel

11 hrs. 44 min.

Language Russian

Author Yakov Shekhter

Narrator Vitaly Sulimov

Description

The novel “The King, the Prince, the Shoemaker, the Rebel” tells the story of the spiritual growth of a soul striving toward the light through historical shadows. The main hero, Girshe, is a boy from poor Birzula who loses his parents early and dreams of escaping the cramped place he’s stuck in. His path leads him to Moscow—full of ideas, hopes, and blood—where the old order collapses and gives way to a new one, just as cruel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Moscow greets him with changes and temptations of new ideas. Trials faced by the rebel and the witness of violence sober Girshe. Amid revolutionary chaos, he tries to preserve the ability to think, doubt, and love. This literary work combines paradoxical thinking with a search for the deep spirituality of his people.