Dorogobuzh. Leibov B.

Dorogobuzh Boris Boris Leibov forces us to recall the historical fantasy of Alexei Ivanov and the anti -utopia Vladimir Sorokin, he is stiffly uncompromising, like the prose of Alexei Salnikov, and mysterious, like Alexander Ilichevsky’s novels.

The small Smolensk city of Dorogobuzh unexpectedly becomes the point of convergence of the eras: the cruel Smolensk prince with the squadron of the flying hussars is the war on Muscovy; Mermaids willingly talk to people and move from the past to the future; The treasure with ancient coins is hidden in a house located in the middle of a revolutionary turmoil; Russian brothers go to the Crimea, then to be in the UK. The novel has everything that should be in good modern prose: metaphorical realism, an incredible combination of incompatible, drive and sappress, and something else elusive, but always felt at the thinnest level.