Ulan Dalai

Natalia Ilishkina was born and raised in the Volga region. She graduated from Samara State University with a degree in Germanic philology. “Ulan Dalai” is a debut novel based on archival materials, accounts from witnesses of the time and their... descendants. “Before us is the story of the Kalmyks, who faithfully served the 'White Tsar' for four long centuries — a story of fulfilled and unfulfilled hopes, military feats and heavy trials during the years of deportation. Through the eyes of three generations of one family — a grandfather, a son, and a grandson — the author sees the Soviet past. But only one of them, gaining insight by the end of his life, comes to a comprehensive understanding of its essence.” Elena Chizhova “'Ulan Dalai' is a gripping family saga about the Buzavs, Don Kalmyk Cossacks. An engaging encyclopedia of the life of a people at a turning point in history, a bridge from Mikhail Sholokhov to Guzel Yakhina.” Anna Matveeva