Children of Arbat In 3 Volumes Author:A. Rybakov Vtoraya kniga trilogii ne sluchajno nazvana ''Strakh''. Eto, navernoe, samaya dramatichnaya chast' trilogii ''Deti Arbata''. Po priznaniyu Anatoliya Rybakova, v ''Strakhe'' ''ispol'zovan ryad privedennykh v pis'makh svedenij, epizodov, a inogda i sudeb''. Dejstvie knigi proiskhodit v 1935 - 1937 godakh. Posle ubijstva Kirova v Leningrade vlast' ... more »ochischaet stranu ot somnitel'nykh, neblagonadezhnykh elementov i vragov naroda. V yanvare 1935 goda vykhodit ''Postanovlenie o terrore''. Teper' sledstvie dlitsya ne bolee desyati dnej, dela mogut slushat'sya bez uchastiya storon, smertel'nyj prigovor privoditsya v ispolnenie srazu posle oglasheniya. Delo ob ''ochistke'' postavleno na konvejer. Stranu okhvatyvaet uzhas. Strakh dokatyvaetsya i do derevni Mozgova, gde otbyvaet ssylku Pankratov. Tem ne menee, zhizn' v Moskve prodolzhaetsya: Varya zabotitsya o Sof'e Aleksandrovne, materi Pankratova, rabochie stroyat metro, chinovniki raportuyut Stalinu o pobedakh, letchiki sovershayut perelet cherez Severnyj polyus v Ameriku, polyarniki ''Chelyuskina'' drejfuyut na l'dine. Nastupaet 1937 god - apofeoz Strakha. Lyudi otdalyayutsya drug ot druga i zamykayutsya v sebe, rushatsya chelovecheskie sud'by. Strakh delaet lyudej palachami. Neizmerimaya, neskonchaemaya tsep' strakha: ot Stalina - vniz, k lyudyam, nakhodyaschimsya u podnozhiya vlasti. Sasha Pankratov na neskol'ko korotkikh chasov nelegal'no popadaet v stolitsu, a zatem, sleduya sovetu materi i razminuvshis' s Varej, uezzhaet v Kalinin, postoyanno oschuschaya za spinoj dykhanie chudovischnoj mashiny unichtozheniya.« less