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Mongolian Etudes : To the Ends of an Empire: A Remarkable Story Told in Letters, Poems and Prose, Paperback / softback Book

Mongolian Etudes : To the Ends of an Empire: A Remarkable Story Told in Letters, Poems and Prose Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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A wonderful look at Soviet-era life as witnessed from the edge of the empire, this book is comprised of letters, poems, and prose pieces that together create a narrative.

Through an entirely original form, Vladimir Azarov, who trained to be an architect in Moscow during Stalin's Iron Curtain years, begins with a simple exploratory exchange of letters between him and a faceless bureaucrat during his days overseeing the design and construction of the Soviet Embassy in the isolated republic of Mongolia.

What follows is an unfolding sequence that finds Azarov meeting a remarkable Mongolian woman and later discovering the memoirs of one of Russia's greatest poets, Anna Akhmatova, eventually revealing an unlikely love story between the Mongolian woman and Akhmatova's son.

This enthralling account serves as both a cultural study and an exploration of the human condition.

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