Dionysius's Board. Antique novel-life in ten hallmarks
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Dionysius's Board. Antique novel-life in ten hallmarks
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USSR, early 1970s. An old, once provincial town a few hundred kilometers from Moscow. Anna, a candidate of art history who has recently defended her dissertation on the works of icon painter Dionisy, learns that a sixteenth-century icon has disappeared from a nearby monastery. Anna rushes to follow the trail of the missing image of the Savior, not realizing that it is a trail of blood.
Alexei Smirnov von Rauch (1937-2009) made an indelible impression on the regulars of the Juzynski circle with his prose in the 1960s, and with his painting on modernist connoisseurs in the Czech Republic and Germany. Having severed ties with the outside world, Smirnov spent thirty years within the walls of churches and hermitages, restoring frescoes and observing the parallel life of Soviet society, where surviving descendants of nobles, fugitive monks, enterprising intourists, declassified elements, and omnipresent KGB officers intertwined in a suffocating battle. Gripping, truthful and therefore even more brutal novel "The Dionisius Board" was written in 1976 in the desk without the prospect of publication. A lost masterpiece of Russian literature, it convincingly shows that the central issues of life in Russia have not changed in fifty years or five hundred.
Alexei Smirnov von Rauch (1937-2009) made an indelible impression on the regulars of the Juzynski circle with his prose in the 1960s, and with his painting on modernist connoisseurs in the Czech Republic and Germany. Having severed ties with the outside world, Smirnov spent thirty years within the walls of churches and hermitages, restoring frescoes and observing the parallel life of Soviet society, where surviving descendants of nobles, fugitive monks, enterprising intourists, declassified elements, and omnipresent KGB officers intertwined in a suffocating battle. Gripping, truthful and therefore even more brutal novel "The Dionisius Board" was written in 1976 in the desk without the prospect of publication. A lost masterpiece of Russian literature, it convincingly shows that the central issues of life in Russia have not changed in fifty years or five hundred.
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