Vasily Yan: Dervish from the Constellation of Pleiades

A traveler, special assignments official, teacher, correspondent, influence agent, editor of a White Guard newspaper, economist, writer, laureate of the Stalin Prize — Vasily Yan seems to have lived ten lives. However, becoming a classic of the Soviet historical novel (most famous for “Genghis Khan”), he concealed the truth about himself. His biography is a story about the choice of a path and the inevitability of fate, about how humanity becomes a reliable support, and how the passion for exploring the world and people helps to survive when everything around collapses.