Secret clerk
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Secret clerk
19.99 €
In the works of Gennady Prashkevich, Siberia's past is more than just a part of our shared history. Siberia is his homeland; he was born here, hence his vibrant, intimate, and passionate approach to the life of Russia in times past, its aspirations, and the sacrifices it was willing and willing to make to achieve the borders we have today. In the novel "Rhinoruky," Russian Cossacks, on orders from Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, search for a live mammoth in the Indigirka tundra. In "The Secret of the Polar Prince," the famous explorer Semyon Dezhnev and his comrades establish a settlement on the Pogych, "a river at the edge of the earth, renowned for its fur, fish teeth, and silver." But the pinnacle of Prashkevich's "Siberiade" is "The Secret Clerk," a novel about the arduous journey to the semi-mythical land of Aponia, the Russians' quest for the inaccessible Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands.
"It all started with a casual glance at a school textbook," the writer recounts the creation of "The Secret Clerk." "I was struck by the fact that the history of Siberia was given only one page. A collection of familiar names—Khabarov, Atlasov, Yermak. And not a word about Stadukhin, Rebrov, Kurochkin, Kozyrevsky. And not a word about Krasheninnikov, Yokhelson, Tanya-Bogoraz. And not a word about the many, many other minor and major Russian explorers, as if there was no one left to boast about except the bandits Yermak and Khabarov. I found it all strange and annoying." I asked myself: what do I actually know about my native Siberia, which I've traveled far and wide? And suddenly it dawned on me that I knew no more than some Moscow PhD candidate in philology. Realizing this, I immersed myself in "Sibirika," in Miller's chests, in the archives..."
And the result is a book about a great, arduous expedition that expanded the borders of the fatherland to the distant eastern ocean and established its borders to the glory of the Russian State.
The texts of the works in this edition have been significantly revised, supplemented, and corrected by the author.
"It all started with a casual glance at a school textbook," the writer recounts the creation of "The Secret Clerk." "I was struck by the fact that the history of Siberia was given only one page. A collection of familiar names—Khabarov, Atlasov, Yermak. And not a word about Stadukhin, Rebrov, Kurochkin, Kozyrevsky. And not a word about Krasheninnikov, Yokhelson, Tanya-Bogoraz. And not a word about the many, many other minor and major Russian explorers, as if there was no one left to boast about except the bandits Yermak and Khabarov. I found it all strange and annoying." I asked myself: what do I actually know about my native Siberia, which I've traveled far and wide? And suddenly it dawned on me that I knew no more than some Moscow PhD candidate in philology. Realizing this, I immersed myself in "Sibirika," in Miller's chests, in the archives..."
And the result is a book about a great, arduous expedition that expanded the borders of the fatherland to the distant eastern ocean and established its borders to the glory of the Russian State.
The texts of the works in this edition have been significantly revised, supplemented, and corrected by the author.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Russian Literature. Big Books