Beasts, Men and Gods

Bolshevik soldiers are drinking in his forest hut when a gaunt stranger appears, rifle ready, and asks, “Who is the master here?”

It is 1920 in Siberia, where revolution has made an ordinary walk through Krasnoyarsk grounds for arrest—and the frozen forest offers no easy refuge. Fleeing for his life, Ossendowski takes up a hunter’s gear, only to find armed soldiers at his cabin and a wary stranger called Ivan at his side. When rifle shots crack through the trees, Ivan returns with horses and supplies, then proposes a journey of hundreds of versts through the wilderness. With danger close behind and winter all around, can Ossendowski trust the man who calls himself Ivan?

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