Loyal Ruslan. Three Minutes of Silence

Georgy Nikolaevich Vladimov 1931–2003 — writer, human rights activist. Laureate of the 'Russian Booker' prize. The novella 'Loyal Ruslan' is dedicated to the amazing fate of a guard dog, which becomes unnecessary after the camp is disbanded. The fate of the text is remarkable: in the sixties it could have seen the light in 'Novy Mir'; in the seventies it was smuggled to the West, and in the USSR published only at the end of the eighties, instantly becoming a literary sensation. The book also includes the novel 'Three Minutes of Silence' — a truthful and