Bibliograph

The Leonardo gulag, a novel, Kevin Doherty

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The Leonardo gulag, a novel, Kevin Doherty

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Leonardo gulag

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kevin Doherty

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Stalin's Russia, 1950: Brilliant young artist Pasha Kalmenov is arrested and sent without trial to a forced-labor camp in the Arctic gulag. This is a camp like no other. Although conditions are harsh and degrading, the prisoners are not to be worked to death in a coal mine or on a construction project. Their task is to forge the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. There is a high price to be paid for failing to reach the required standard of perfection, particularly as the camp commandant has his own secret agenda. When the executions begin, Pasha realizes that only his artistic talent can protect him. But for how long? Worse horrors are to come-if he survives them, will life still be worth living? The Leonardo Gulag journeys to the sinister heart of Stalin's regime of terror, where paranoia reigns and no one is safe, and in which the whims of one man determine the fate of millions. Ultimately, the novel presents a moving portrait of the indomitability of the human spirit

Target audience

adult

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