Ulan Dalai. Ikhkina N.Yu.

Natalya Ishkina was born and raised in the Volga region. She graduated from the Samara State University with a degree in a philologist-Germanist.

“Ulan Dalai” - a debut novel based on archival materials, stories of witnesses of time and their descendants.

Before us the story of Kalmyks, who has long been for four centuries by faith and the truth that served the “White Tsar”, is the history of the renewed and not realized hopes, military exploits and serious ordeals during the years of deportation. The eyes of three generations of one family - grandfather, son and grandson - the author sees the Soviet past. But only one of them, seeing the end of life, comes to the exhaustive awareness of its essence.