Yakut stories: Marat Bulanov

For many Russians, Yakutia seems to be mysterious, poorly studied, wild. The edge, where, with the most severe frosts, huge low-sedentary areas, somehow people live, and, of course, not only the indigenous population. But what is the real life in Sakha-Jakutia can be learned from books, the Internet, from the “settlers” who have been there. The edge is incredibly interesting, bright, with its specific culture and nature, with remarkable, unusual and, at the same time, most common, as everywhere, people.
The book, with the same name, once already saw the light – in 1895. It was written by the exile Pole Vaclav Seroshevsky. But the events reflected in those “Yakut stories” – alas, only a century ago. Much, a lot has changed, over the past years, in Yakutia. The stories we propose cover modern reality, starting from the sunset of Soviet times, ending with the statement of a new, “democratic” system in the republic.
The protagonist of the narratives is Alexander Istomin, he was …

Author
Bulanov Marat
Artist
Sapunova Nadezhda
Publisher
Owl, 2012