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Око Силы. Первая трилогия. 1920–1921 годы #3
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Тихие парижские улочки, горящие крымские степи, суровая большевистская Москва – и всюду Степану Косухину и Ростиславу Арцеулову противостоят сверхъестественные силы, преследующие свои тайные цели. Поиск правды приводит смельчаков в подземелья Кремля, где им предстоит встреча с тем, кто стоит за зловещим экспериментом над миллионами людей. Чем закончится для них эта встреча – смертью или бессмертием?
First published January 1, 1994
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Andrey Valentinov
57 books9 followersАндре́й Валенти́нович Шмалько́ (псевдоним: Андрей Валентинов) родился 18 марта 1958 года в Харькове. Кандидат исторических наук, доцент Харьковского Национального Университета. Увлекается археологией. Жанр, в котором он творит, он сам называет термином «криптоистория». Андрей мастер слова, его книги читаются на одном дыхании и не оставляют равнодушными никого, кто хоть раз к ним прикоснулся.
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November 25, 2023
This is the final volume of the first trilogy of Eye of Power: 1920-1921. The first one, Volunteers of Chelkel, I reviewed here and the second Protector of the Wound here. The English title of this novel is Lightbringer, a clear reference to Lucifer.
The book starts where the last book ended: red commander Stepan Kosukhin gets to Paris to meet a woman scientist Natasha Berg, who was on many adventures with him in the previous two books. However, she has an amnesia plus white Russian migrants in France try to ‘squash the red bug’. This doesn’t hamper his searches (together with Polish-American archeologist/ethnographer from the 2nd volume – Tadeusz Waluzenich) of artifacts from Arthurian legend. And of course, he finds them! To spice up his living, he is attacked by a Golem…
Meanwhile, white captain Rostislav Arceulov gets to Crimea, where the white forces slowly lose ground to Reds and Makhno’s anarchists. He has some ‘drops’ into the past, meeting a medieval Italian pirate in a Goth castle in Crimea and Cossacks in the South-Ukrainian steppe, as well as more creatures from folklore. And while it was nice to see that the author finally moved closer to home, his interpretation sadly follows the ‘classic’ Russian empire / Soviet approach – Cossacks as fighters against Turks, Tatars and Poles, defenders of the Russian Orthodox Church (in truth, this is only partial picture, for Cossacks in different times united with all three and fought among others against Muscovites)… okey, I understand that the author wrote his trilogy in 1993-1994, plus he was born in 1958, so he was growing up with that narrative, but he is a historian by profession!
Overall an interesting trilogy, quite lively and full of action, even if sometimes too much stuff is jumbled together.
The book starts where the last book ended: red commander Stepan Kosukhin gets to Paris to meet a woman scientist Natasha Berg, who was on many adventures with him in the previous two books. However, she has an amnesia plus white Russian migrants in France try to ‘squash the red bug’. This doesn’t hamper his searches (together with Polish-American archeologist/ethnographer from the 2nd volume – Tadeusz Waluzenich) of artifacts from Arthurian legend. And of course, he finds them! To spice up his living, he is attacked by a Golem…
Meanwhile, white captain Rostislav Arceulov gets to Crimea, where the white forces slowly lose ground to Reds and Makhno’s anarchists. He has some ‘drops’ into the past, meeting a medieval Italian pirate in a Goth castle in Crimea and Cossacks in the South-Ukrainian steppe, as well as more creatures from folklore. And while it was nice to see that the author finally moved closer to home, his interpretation sadly follows the ‘classic’ Russian empire / Soviet approach – Cossacks as fighters against Turks, Tatars and Poles, defenders of the Russian Orthodox Church (in truth, this is only partial picture, for Cossacks in different times united with all three and fought among others against Muscovites)… okey, I understand that the author wrote his trilogy in 1993-1994, plus he was born in 1958, so he was growing up with that narrative, but he is a historian by profession!
Overall an interesting trilogy, quite lively and full of action, even if sometimes too much stuff is jumbled together.
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