Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

Stalin`s Meteorologist: One Man`s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death

Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison. Less than a year before, Alexey Wangenheim – a celebrated meteorologist – had been hailed by Stalin as a national hero. But following his sudden arrest, he was exiled to a gulag, forced to spend his remaining years on an island in the frozen north, along with thousands of other political prisoners.Stalin`s Meteorologist is the thrilling and deeply moving account of an innocent man caught up in the brutality of Soviet paranoia. It`s a timely reminder of the human consequences of political extremism.

Related Products:

On Stalin`s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics The Last Days of Stalin The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America`s Top Secrets Stalin`s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of life, death and the NHS Stalin: v. 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 Conversations with Stalin Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 `We Love Death as You Love Life`: Britain`s Suburban Terrorists The Devils` Alliance: Hitler`s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 Young Stalin Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story Two Weeks in November: The Astonishing Untold Story of the Operation That Toppled Mugabe Killing It: A Memoir of Love, Life, Death and Dinner Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin`s Master Agent Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China The Tunnels: The Untold Story of the Escapes Under the Berlin Wall Red Famine: Stalin`s War on Ukraine Kolyma Stories The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin`s Ambassador in London Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World Bloodlands – Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Dear Life: A Doctor`s Story of Love, Loss and Consolation The Invisible Cross: One frontline officer, three years in the trenches, a remarkable untold story The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China`s Hidden Mountains Babushka`s Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin`s Wartime Camps Untold Story Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao`s Great Famine Black Tudors: The Untold Story Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World`s Greatest Nuclear Disaster Life and Death in Shanghai Mafia Life: Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart Everest – The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made it Possible The Life and Death of St. Kilda The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World