Siberian epic. Höley E.

In the book of Eric Höley presented by the reader, the author’s professional, living pen and his passion for scientific work were connected. In detail and deeply, he analyzes the story, which, in his opinion, surpasses any western Great trip to Siberia and the conquest of the Russian North. Before us is not only the archival pages of this epic, although the actual side of the case is written in scrupulously and is accompanied by maps and links to archives and documents, but the author’s interest in people: their actions, motives, feelings, ideas and affairs.

About the author: Eric Hösley a prominent Swiss journalist, professor of EPFL (Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne), writer, researcher of the history of Russia. At the age of twelve, he decided to study the Russian language through which he was imbued with interest in our country. “Together with knowledge of the language, you understand everything differently as you think: Russia is a whole world, a whole huge continent,” says Höley. For the first time he ended up in the Soviet Union in 1983, and since then his life has been inextricably linked with our country. Eric investigated the history of the Gulag, wrote a book about the Caucasian wars, traveled around the north, was in the Arctic, in the Urals, Baikal, Altai, the Far East and in many other places.