Books by Sergei Alekseev: myth or reality

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Fantasy and science fiction have always been popular, and one of the brightest representatives of this genre is Alekseev Sergey Trofimovich. Fiction and facts, fairy tale and reality are surprisingly intertwined in his books. The works are filled with deep meaning, light irony, always new and at the same time easily recognizable.

Biography

Alekseev Sergey Trofimovich was born in the Tomsk region, the village of Aleyka, on January 20, 1952. As a child, he was engaged in fishing and hunting with his father. He graduated from 8 classes, while the school was 7 kilometers from home, I had to get on foot.

Continued his studies at night school, worked part-time in the forge of an industrial plant. After school he entered a technical school, in 1970 he went into the army. He served in Moscow in the protection of objects of the Ministry of Finance. He was demobilized in 1972 and continued his studies at the Geological and Exploration Faculty of the Tomsk Technical School. After graduation, he left as part of a polar expedition to Taimyr.

Returning to Tomsk, he got a job in the police as an inspector of the criminal investigation department. Went to study at the StateTomsk University at the Faculty of Law. In 1977, he left the university and the police service, took up creativity.

First lines

Such books by Sergei Alekseev as "The Word", "Treasures of the Valkyries", "Wolf Grip" were inspired by his solo expeditions to the hermitages of the Old Believers in the Urals.

In 1985 Sergey Alekseev moved to Vologda. He took up construction and hunting, built several houses, baths, erected a chapel on his mother's grave.

The first books by Sergei Alekseev were written in the tradition of rural prose. For his work "The Word" Sergei Trofimovich received the Lenin Komsomol Prize in 1985, for the book "Roy" he was awarded the Prize of the Union of Writers in 1987, for "The Return of Cain" he was awarded the Sholokhov Prize. The events of history and mysticism, a sharp plot and philosophical reflections are very closely intertwined in the writer's work. Several plays based on his books were staged at the Vologda Drama Theatre.

Cain in Time of Troubles

The book by Sergei Trofimovich "The Return of Cain" describes the events taking place in Russia in the early 90s. Time of Troubles, the collapse of one country, the formation of another, the state is changing, and with it the people. Its inhabitants, who by the will of fate were brought up in an orphanage, return to the family noble estate. No matter how they tried not to lose each other, nothing happened, everyone's life turned out differently. Elder brother Alexei Ershov left the military service and decided to settle with his wife and children in his own home. Sister Vera, brothers Oleg and Vasily will also come there. The younger brother Kirill has just graduated from a tank school and is now dreaming of a wedding with his girlfriend.

It seems that fate gave them a second chance to start a quiet peaceful life with new dreams and hopes. The same faith exists in the whole country, which is on the verge of civil war, a second assault on the White House is expected. How many families were split by wars, brother went against brother, father against son. So Cain killed Abel. A huge number of human destinies were broken and distorted in the struggle between the state and the people. The death of several people during the storming of the government house, compared with the events taking place in the country, seemed like a trifle. But they were, and there is no getting away from this, they happened next to us and will forever remain in our memory.

The book tells about the fate of these people, about the crime of moral and human laws, which could not stop the killing of people and prevent the tragedy. About how the citizens of one once great country rose against each other.

Bell ringing

Being in the Urals, in 22 days Sergei Trofimovich wrote the book "The Pontifex from the Gulag". The idea of this book has been matured by the author all his life, he started writing it several times, but something didn’t work, but in the end the work was born in one breath.

During the revolution of 1917, instead of eliminating injustice, violence, lawlessness, the world order was destroyed. The new government plundered and closed the temples, the bell ringing is no longer heard. Erased the border of the world of the livingand the dead, white and black mixed up, there is no longer a barrier between this and that light. A former prisoner of the Gulag, and now a secular patriarch and cellist, he strives to finish the symphony, which he began during the years of the revolution. Will he succeed? Can he restore his balance?

About angels, UFOs and other evil spirits

Sergey Alekseev wrote a whole series of books "Treasures of the Valkyrie", it includes novels, "Straga of the North", "Star Wounds", "Standing by the Sun", "Keeper of Power", "Truth and Fiction", "Earth shining power”, “Bird way”. The cycle of books describes the activities of former employees of the secret institute, which was created by the Cheka under the USSR Ministry of Finance. The protagonist Professor Rusinov is constantly involved in exciting adventures, this is the search for the Amber Room, and the gold of the Third Reich, and the gold of the party. Books by Sergei Alekseev describe how, having gone through a series of unusual and often mystical events, the professor finds the spiritual guardians of the once Great Northern Civilization. In the book "Star Wounds" a young journalist is looking for a country of eternal happiness and youth, a kind of heaven on earth. Nirvana, Belovodye, Semiozerye - different nations call this country in their own way.

Legacy

Among the well-known works of the writer are such books by Sergei Alekseev as Satisfy My Sorrows, Death Valley, The Secret of the Third Mound, Satan Prayed to God, Sedition. The last work caused a wide public outcry. According to the books "Roy" and "Arkaim. Standing by the Sun" films were made.