Winter Road. General A.N. Pepelyaev and anarchist I.Ya. Strod in Yakutia. 1922-1923

Leonid Yuzefovich — a renowned writer, historian, author of the novels “Philhellene”, “Cranes and Dwarfs”, the short story collection “Lighthouse on Hiiumaa”, and others, the biography of Baron Ungern “Despot of the Desert”, as well as the screenplay for the... film “The Death of an Empire”.

“Winter Road” is an exciting story about a little-known episode of the Civil War in Russia: the heroic march of the Siberian Volunteer Corps from Vladivostok to Yakutia in 1922–1923. The book is based on archival sources that the author has gathered for many years, but it is written in the form of a documentary novel.

The main characters of this tragic confrontation amidst the Yakut snows are two extraordinary historical figures: the White general, truth-seeker, and poet Anatoly Pepelyaev, and the Red commander, anarchist, future writer Ivan Strod.

The book has been awarded the “Big Book” and “National Bestseller” prizes.

"In local events, hardly noticed by anyone before him, Yuzefovich discovers grand archetypical plots. Documentary, yes, but a novel; not because it is fabricated, but because, as the French say, it is “written”, it is literature.

Who else, besides Yuzefovich, has such an ear, such a sense of music — not only of the language itself, but also of History? No one, perhaps."

Lev Danilkin