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Product details
- ISBN 9781939810090
- Dimensions: 138 x 165mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2018
- Publisher: Archipelago Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Horsemen of the Sands gathers two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: 'Horsemen of the Sands' and 'The Storm.' The former tells the true story of R.F. Ungern-Shternberg, also known as the 'Mad Baltic Baron,' a military adventurer whose intense fascination with the East drove him to seize control of Mongolia during the chaos of the Russian Civil War. 'The Storm' centres on an unexpected emotional crisis that grips a Russian elementary school on an otherwise regular day, unveiling the vexed emotional bonds and shared history that knit together its community of students, teachers, parents, and staff.
Leonid Yuzefovich, a historian and writer, was born in Moscow in 1947 and spent his childhood and adolescence in the Urals. After graduating from university in Perm, he served as an officer in the Soviet Army in the Trans-Baikal region from 1970 to 1972 and for many years taught history in high school and college. His detective novel trilogy about a real-life nineteenth-century police inspector, Ivan Putilin, has been filmed several times and been translated into various languages. Yuzefovich was awarded the Big Book Prize for his novel Cranes and Pygmies in 2009, and has been shortlisted twice for the Russian Booker Prize. About the translator: Marian Schwartz has translated over sixty volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction, history, biography, criticism, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated the New York Times' bestseller The Last Tsar, by Edvard Radzinsky, as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Goncharov, Yuri Olesha, and Mikhail Lermontov, and Leo Tolstoy. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and the 2014 Read Russia Prize for Best Translation of Contemporary Russian Literature and is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.
