Hike to Bar-Khoto
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Hike to Bar-Khoto
9.99 €
Leonid Yuzefovich is a writer, historian, and winner of the "Big Book" and "National Bestseller" awards. In his new book "The Bar-Hoto Campaign" he turns to his favorite oriental themes; it is a fictional story with fictional characters - but in a real setting.In the memoirs of a Russian officer, Captain Solodovnikov, who served as a military adviser in the Mongolian army in 1912-1914, when the Mongols were defending their independence from China, intertwined the siege of the Chinese-occupied fortress of Bar-Khoto, love for the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, World War I, exile from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s. Here the hero rethinks his own life, and thereby - the fate of man in the crucial epochs. "I have suffered many inconveniences here, suffered from heat, cold and bad water, lice, covered with boils, sick with dysentery - but never and nowhere have I felt freer than in Mongolia. I did not find in it what I was looking for, I did not write a novel, I did not become a Buddhist; but, unlike in St. Petersburg, where the proximity of supreme power distorts the proportions of things, where ghosts pretend to be men and even more often - for women, where books ooze fog and on the sound of gold buy the smell of food, where there is no truth, but only expediency - here, on this meager land, I lived among the living, saw all the colors of the world, walked beside death, loved and was happy.
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