Aleksander Brodsky

Stories of the past and our century, or 40 years later Aleksander Brodsky

This book, written in Russian, has a symbolic title, "Stories of the past and our century (or 40 years later)" is the second part of Aleksander M. Brodsky's memoirs. A sometimes funny, sometimes tragic telling of stories of people that this author met working in Soviet movies and television. True events of famous and some unknown actors, scientists, writers and athletes. You will also find some parodies and satires of some poetry in Russian. A special part of this book is in prose, for example, the well known story of "Little Red Riding Hood" as a satirical part of modern Russian history. A dramatic story at the end of this impressive book is about author's childhood during the Second World War. The Stories of the past and our century is brilliantly designed with many colored and black & white photos.