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Sasha Krugosvetov
Orenburg
The Soviet Regime
The New Economic Policy and Khibinogorsk
The Northern Caucasus
The Great Fatherland War
The Blockade
My Nanny
Post-war Romanticism
How to become a Cosmopolitan
My universities
The Propaganda Brigade, My Love
No Thaw Yet
The 1960s
Big Brother
The Young Georgian Princess
The Bite of the Screw
The Place Where They Teach You to Fly
The Time of Sturm und Drang
Genuine Calm or Merely a Lull before the Storm?
What Remains of Us
The Paths we Choose
The Desperate 1990s
And Now Some Curious Incidents
Paradise on Earth
Old Mistakes
The Help of a Witch
A New Chapter
The Pendulum Swung to the Other Side
A Children's Writer
Conclusion
Sasha Krugosvetov is the pen name of Lev Lapkin, a Russian writer and scientist. Born in 1941, he worked in science research and began to write fiction in the early 2010s. For his books, he was awarded several prizes at the Russian-based International Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, «RosCon» (including 2014 Alisa Award for the best children's fantasy book, 2015 Silver RosCon Award for the best short story book and 2019 Gold RosCon Award for the best novel), the International Adam Mickiewicz Medal (Moscow/Warsaw, 2015) and other prestigious Russian literary awards. His novel, «Dado Island: The Superstitious Democracy» was translated into
However, the good times didn't last long in the old communal flat on Nevsky Prospekt. The problem was that my grandfather had been repeatedly put through the «steam room» when he was on the Solovetsky Islands. Narrow benches were placed into a small room and the prisoners were made to sit astride these benches, very close together, belly to back. Then they'd fill the room with steam. To make the prisoners suffer. To make them realise that they had to surrender what they had unrighteously amassed to the country of the working people. My grandfather returned from the Solovetsky Islands suffering from severe asthma. He died shortly afterwards.
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Recently my son found a copy of the original documents nominating my father for his awards on the website «Openaccess database of documents 'The People's Victory in the Great Fatherland War 1941-45'». Look, he said, grandfather was a «terminator». This is what's written, in black and white, in careful handwriting, in the official document on the grounds of which my father received the Order of the Red Banner:
«Sergeant major – surname, name, patronymic – displayed extraordinary courage, self-control, bravery and heroism during the forced crossing of the river Oder and the storming of a heavily fortified defence position on German territory.
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