Silent Souls' Director Alexey Fedorchenko Publishes an Encyclopedia with Biographies of Scholars Repressed in the USSR

'Silent Souls' director Alexey Fedorchenko has published an encyclopedia with biographies of scholars repressed in the USSR. Anton Dolin writes about it

"The Chief of Fairy Tales" is a strangely constructed book. Together with film scholar Lida Kanashova, Fedorchenko tells the biographies of dozens of repressed scholars, adding phantasmagorical plots to these terrifying stories, in other words, fairy tales.

You are unlikely to know the names of most of the heroes of this book. They are not only mathematicians and physicists, but also dialectologists, philosophers of biology, hydrogeologists, icon restorers, zoogeographers, art historians, land-reclamation specialists, ethnographers, immunologists, experts in aviation, underwater navigation, and even equestrian sports. The authors restore to all of them the attention they are due.

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Director Alexey Fedorchenko Has Long Collected Biographies of Repressed Scholars. Now he has published a book about them (together with film scholar Lida…

SamTamBooks has published "The Chief of Fairy Tales," a book by director Alexey Fedorchenko and film scholar Lida Kanashova. It is a collection of biographies of repressed scholars, arranged in an original way: terrifying biographical sketches are replaced in it by phantasmagorical…