Fascinated wanderers. Avchenko V.O.

Cultural development of the territory is no less important than administrative, military, and economic. “Fascinated Wanderers” is a collection of essays on the literary pioneers of the Far East. These writers continued - after navigators, military, diplomats - a matter of increasing the distant eastern territories and waters to Russia. Among the heroes of the book are the recognized classics Ivan Goncharov, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Prishvin, and an outstanding traveler, scientist, writer Vladimir Arsenyev, and Belmigrant, who lived in Vladivostok and Harbina, Poet, prose writer Arseni Nesmelov, and author of the cult novel “Territory” Geophysicik Oleg Kuvaev. The American Jack London may seem foreign in this list, but he, according to the author of the Vladivostok journalist and prose writer Vasily Avchenko, is connected with Russia and its Far Eastern peripherals much stronger than it might seem. This book is not only about fate and texts, but also about the Far East, its past and present.