Cranes and Dwarfs

18 hrs. 43 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Leonid Yuzefovich

Narrator Radik Mukhametzyanov

Description

Leonid Yuzefovich is a writer and historian, author of brilliant documentary novels-biographies “Autocrat of the Desert” about the mysterious Baron Ungern and “Winter Road” (the “NATIONAL BESTSELLER” prize)—about the last romantic of the White movement, General Anatoly Pelyaev. The myth of the eternal war of cranes and pygmies (dwarfs), known even from Homer’s “Iliad,” became the basis for the adventurous novel “Cranes and Pygmies,” awarded the “BIG BOOK” prize. What unites a young Mongol living here and now, a forty-year-old geologist from perestroika-era Moscow, an adventurer from the times of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century—another “miraculously surviving” Tsarevich Alexei who appeared in Transbaikalia during the Civil War? The story of four impostors unfolds in “real time,” reflecting, as if in mirrors, in the fate of each of them.