Blue Cities

Written by Alexei Tolstoy

Narrated by David Sillars

A romantic and a dreamer, Alexei Tolstoy never quite came to terms with the conflict between the glorious notion of a revolution to bring equality and justice to the world and its real-life execution, which took place in Russia in 1917. While he realized struggle was inevitable, the full horror of hunger, epidemics, and civil wars never truly sunk in until he found himself in the midst of them. Even worse was the life, which followed, filled with mundane minutia, bureaucracy, corruption, and small-mindedness. To his great shock and disappointment, Tolstoy discovered equality and brotherhood were not always bestowed on the worthiest of men.

Blue Cities - the story of a young architect, whose inability to fit in with this strange, altered world eventually leads to a crime - is a literary record of Tolstoy's own thoughts and feelings during that harrowing and confusing time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TSK Group LLC
• Release date: Dec 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9798882457685

Alexei Tolstoy

Alexei Nikolayevich Count Tolstoy (1883-1945) was a popular Russian writer. In the 1930s and 1940s, he unhesitatingly glorified Stalin in works such as the novel Bread (1937) and provided the Soviet government with the propaganda literature it desired. This led to his being elected chairman of the Soviet Writers' Union in 1936. His most famous creation is Burattino, a fairy-tale character modeled on Pinocchio that is still loved by millions of Russian children today.