Alexander "Shurik"Bayless is the main character in this story. He has lived for more than twenty years in the little village of Myshkino, in the Russian countryside. He is an Englishman, and a former prisoner of the Soviet gulag system who, decades earlier, was imprisoned for political crimes he did not commit. He spent twenty-six years in the labor camp, Sosnogorsklag 32, which is located in the Siberian hinterland. Upon his release, he does not return to England as might be expected. Instead, he searches in Russia for the relatives of a fellow prisoner and friend, Kirill. As Kirill lay dying in a mine accident, Shurik promises him that he will seek out his daughter, Frosya. When he is finally released, Shurik finds his way to Frosya's home, where she is living with Trofim, her husband,.....
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