Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death - Softcover

Rolin, Olivier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784701750 ISBN 13: 9781784701758

Publisher: Vintage, 2018

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018

The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.

One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison.

Less than a year before, Alexey Wangenheim – a celebrated meteorologist – had been hailed by Stalin as a national hero. But following his sudden arrest, he was exiled to a gulag, forced to spend his remaining years on an island in the frozen north, along with thousands of other political prisoners.

Stalin’s Meteorologist is the thrilling and deeply moving account of an innocent man caught up in the brutality of Soviet paranoia. It's a timely reminder of the human consequences of political extremism.

About this title

About the Author

Olivier Rolin was born in Paris, and is a critically acclaimed author and freelance writer. His books have won many prizes, including the Prix du Style for Stalin’s Meteorologist in 2014.He first visited Russia, then the USSR, in 1986. Since then, he has returned many times and has travelled widely throughout the country.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784701750
• ISBN 13: 9781784701758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192