Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 5, 2008
BORIS GOLLER. Home-coming to Mikhailovskoye. A novel.
This is the second book of Boris Goller’s novel (the first one has also been published in “DN”). The author not only reconstructs, but also considers and interprets the events of a very important period in the life of Alexander Pushkin and does it with the deep knowledge of the subject, caution to the historical authenticity and infinite love.
“LiteraruS” Visiting “DN”.
A concerted action of “DN” and friendly magazine “LiteraruS” which is been published in Finland in the Russian language and presents works by our compatriots living in Finland. In this issue there are presented poetical and prosaic texts of the authors — laureates of the literary competition undertaken by both magazines.
ALEXANDER REVITCH, a regular author of “DN”, for the first time appears at the pages of our magazine not as the author of his own fine poems, but presents the literary portrait of the brilliant translator and not widely known Russian poet ALEXANDER GOLEMBA, who didn’t join with the “people of the sixties” and didn’t believe “socialism with a human face”. He has emigrated into the culture as “a man of Minnezang epoch”.
TAISIYA FOMINA has written her memoirs about the Great Patriotic War in the evening of her life, in our days, showing the war as it appeared before her being then a nine-year-old girl. The copy-book she brought to us doesn’t number even a dozen of printed pages but this simple and artless document is not inferior to a voluminous novel in its impression on the reader.
LESLIE BLANCH. Hostages. Fragments of the book.
All reconstructions of historical events have their own measure of truthfulness and objectiveness, but those (like this one) that base on detailed study of historical documents, including little known and sometimes not known at all to the wide public, undoubtedly arouse keen interest. Unbelievable, thrilling life-story of Jamaluddin, one of imam Shamil’s sons, and a dramatic episode of lives of Georgian Princesses and their children’s French governess madame Drancy who spent about a year as captives of Shamil.
Is being published within the project “Multifaced Caucasus”.