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MediaDB / «Daily life of Solovki. From the Abode to the Elephant" Maxim Gureev: download fb2, read online
About the book: 2018 / Everyday life of the Solovetsky archipelago, or simply the Islands, as the Solovki people living on it are called, miraculously absorbs the most different eras in history Russia. And therefore, the book offered to the reader’s attention just as naturally combines stories about the existence of a variety of people: our contemporaries and devotees of piety of the 15th-16th centuries, the archers of the governor Meshcherinov, who dealt with the participants in the famous Solovetsky sitting of the second half of the 17th century, and the cabin boy of the Great Patriotic War, prisoners of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp and security officers from the entourage of Maxim Gorky, who visited Solovki in 1929. On the island in the White Sea, time seems to have stopped, and, once here, we can fully feel this, make sure that everyday life on Solovki is not at all a vain routine and everyday routine, but something more - something that is not talked about on the mainland you think about it. Here everyone becomes part of history and part of the space that the ancient Sami called saivo, which means “Island of the Dead”".