A Mailbox for Letters from the Deceased
5 hrs. 5 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexey Rostovtsev
Author
Alexey Rostovtsev
Narrator
Viktor Rudnichenko
Narrator
Viktor Rudnichenko
Description
“A Letterbox for the Dead” is a continuation of the stories of Colonel of Soviet military intelligence, Aleksei Rostovtsev (1934–2013)—a writer and author of many books and publications, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, who served in intelligence for a quarter of a century, sixteen years of it abroad.
“...Counterintelligence and intelligence gave me inexhaustible material for my literary exercises for the rest of my life. In my stories there is the harsh truth of operational work that must be done with clean hands. For reasons of secrecy I replaced agents’ code names, altered the identifying details of the people involved, and shifted the time and spatial frames of the events. Everything else is the truth…"
- Aleksei Rostovtsev, Colonel of Soviet military intelligence
“...Counterintelligence and intelligence gave me inexhaustible material for my literary exercises for the rest of my life. In my stories there is the harsh truth of operational work that must be done with clean hands. For reasons of secrecy I replaced agents’ code names, altered the identifying details of the people involved, and shifted the time and spatial frames of the events. Everything else is the truth…"
- Aleksei Rostovtsev, Colonel of Soviet military intelligence
Contents:
Enemies of the people
Lame at two o’clock in the afternoon
The first day of the last trip
A letterbox for the dead
Not all the sheep are spoiled at Easter
Let in only the ginger
Obligation
Request
Bonfire
Letter
Action man
Cannibal
Traitor
Papakha (fur hat)
Letter opener (paper knife)
Earth-walker
The homeland is not avenged
How Vasya became a scout
Memory
Erich Mielke (touches to the portrait)
The mistake of the Wolfhunter
Lame at two o’clock in the afternoon
The first day of the last trip
A letterbox for the dead
Not all the sheep are spoiled at Easter
Let in only the ginger
Obligation
Request
Bonfire
Letter
Action man
Cannibal
Traitor
Papakha (fur hat)
Letter opener (paper knife)
Earth-walker
The homeland is not avenged
How Vasya became a scout
Memory
Erich Mielke (touches to the portrait)
The mistake of the Wolfhunter
18:13
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05:09
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06:04
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09:58
n-04
11:53
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10:02
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16:40
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10:15
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45:46
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11:02
n-10
15:23
n-11
06:28
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14:00
n-13
08:50
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08:37
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11:57
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22:10
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21:39
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14:12
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14:03
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23:03
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