Short Stories in Russian by Brian James Baer

There were certain people who were constantly helping his family out. But Tatyana Alexeyevna’s father seemed untroubled by that. “Fools! I’m telling you, just wait a year!” “You promised that we were coming to a country where ordinary people are happy, but all we’ve heard about so far is uprisings.”

“Let’s see what you have to say in a year.” “Just wait, my dears!” my father said cheerfully. All they have to brag about are government-issued cigarette holders that freeze to their lips!” “They have no water, no gas, no electricity. “What are these marching people so happy about?” the nannies asked in surprise. They didn’t meet any new or fundamentally different people, but on the first day they came across three marching bands. While reasonable people were leaving the country, the Belys were moving in the opposite direction, toward the storm, into the epicenter of history.

The move took place at the beginning of 1920. Petersburg and worked as a journalist, screenwriter and author for a satire show. After abandoning his classical music training, he studied literature in St. Filipenko, born in Minsk in 1984, is a Belarusian author who writes in Russian. As the stakes get higher and higher, Vadim's story including his connection to the wars in Chechnya and the Ukraine is revealed and it becomes clear that the first meeting between the two men was not all it first seemed to be to Pavel.īack in the church, Pavel learns that the terrorists have one and only one demand, and that it concerns the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.The following is excerpted from Sasha Filipenko's new novel, Red Crosses, translated by Brian James Baer and Ellen Vayner. Vadim welcomes Pavel but refuses to capitulate. The Church is horrifyingly silent when Pavel enters. Pavel may be one of Vadim's only friends, and when others realize this, he is asked to negotiate with Vadim. The friendship between the two men evolved through periods of conflict, war, peace, emigration, and isolation. As they watch, on the TV screen appears the face of one of the terrorists: Vadim Petrovich Seryegin, an old friend of Pavel's. Over a hundred people have been taken hostage in the Church of the Epiphany in the village of Nikolskoye near Moscow. One evening in 2015, the journalist Pavel Vladimirovich and his wife Tatyana are at home when the news breaks that there has been a terrorist attack. A gripping, illuminating novel about recent Russian aggressions and the humans caught in the crossfire.

Short Stories in Russian by Brian James Baer