Moscow Saga in 3 Books

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov — a recognized classic and cult figure of Russian literature. His works are well known not only in Russia but also abroad. Success came to Aksyonov back in the 1960s, — responding with brilliant prose to the... most complex and relevant topics, he remained the voice of his generation for many decades. Among Aksyonov's beloved works is the trilogy «Moscow Saga», written in the early 1990s and adapted for film in 2004. The trilogy consists of the novels «Generation of Winter», «War and Prison», «Prison and Peace». Their action covers perhaps the darkest period in Russian history of the 20th century — from the early twenties to the early fifties. On a warm evening in 1925, the entire Gradov family gathered at the professor's dacha in Serebryany Bor — this is how the narrative about three generations of this family begins, who will have to go through all the circles of hell of the Stalin era: the struggle against Trotskyism, collectivization, camps, war with fascism, post-war repression.