Издания и произведения

Alexei is the highly respected head of the Soviet Union’s meteorology department. He is also a loving family man, devoted to his wife and his four-year-old daughter Eleonora. But one fateful morning in 1934, less than a year after being hailed by Stalin as a national hero, Alexi is suddenly arrested and exiled to a gulag. With thousands of other political prisoners, he spends his remaining years on an island in the frozen north, under vast skies and surrounded by water that was, for more than six months of the year, a sheet of motionless ice. Olivier Rolin masterfully pieces together Alexei’s story and his eventual horrifying fate,…