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A Gift over the Abyss of Despair

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A Gift over the Abyss of Despair
9.99 €
The new novel by Samara writer Sergei Zhigalov has everything that can touch the heart of any discerning reader. Based on true historical data, the novel
tells the story of the life and work of the unique icon painter Grigory
Zhuravlev... Born into this world without arms or legs, he seemed
doomed. But great fortitude, hard work until his lips cracked bloody, and the gift he received from God inspire him. With a brush clenched between his teeth, he paints icons. A peasant,
"a stump of a man," from a remote village on the Volga finds himself at
the very pinnacle of the coming Russian Golgotha. He nearly perishes in the Khodynka
tragedy, meets Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, meets the
Narodnaya Volya bombers and Vladimir Ulyanov, and speaks with Grigory
Rasputin. Tsar Nicholas II invited him to paint a portrait of the Tsar's family, not created by human hands...
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