Bakunin

by Roman Gul

Vremja dejstvija romana - revoljutsionnye sobytija 1830- 1850 godov v stranakh Zapadnoj Evropy i rol Rossii v etikh sobytijakh. Khorosho znakomye ljubiteljam istorii fakty, samu atmosferu vremeni Gul pokazyvaet cherez dve istoricheskie figury - "russkogo skifa" (otsjuda i blokovskij epigraf romana), revoljutsionera i osnovopolozhnika anarkhizma Bakunina i "zhandarma Evropy" Nikolaja 1. Ikh otnoshenija - psikhologicheskie, ideologicheskie i nravstvennye - sostavljajut osnovu romana. Eto tem bolee interesno, chto v zhizni oni nikogda ne vstrechalis lichno.Gul, opisyvaja protivostojanie vlasti diktatora i stremlenija k svobode revoljutsionera Bakunina, dokhodjaschee poroj do fanatizma, obnazhaet ne tolko propast mezhdu nimi, no i to obschee, chto neizbezhno rodnit i delaet pokhozhimi do nerazlichimosti krajnie projavlenija "pravykh" i "levykh" - v istorii i v politike. I v etoj neodnoznachnosti - filosofskoe znachenie romana, kotoryj ne ustarel i po segodnjashnij den.

288 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Roman Borisovich Gul (Russian Рома́н Бори́сович Гуль) was a Russian émigré writer who was prominent in the White Movement.

In 1917, after the October Revolution, Gul joined the Kornilov Shock regiment of the White Volunteer Army. He participated in the Ice March and was wounded. He was captured by Ukrainian Army and imprisoned in late 1918. In 1919 he was transferred to Germany and settled in Berlin in 1920 becoming a writer.

Gul emigrated to the USA in 1950 and worked for the Novyy Zhoulnal becoming chief editor in 1966. Gul died of a lung infection in 1986 and is buried in Novo-Diveevo Cemetery in Spring Valley, New York.