The Island of Crimea (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vassily Aksyonov
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Alternative history
- Time of Work: The late 1970’s
- Setting: The Crimea, Moscow and surrounding countryside, and Paris
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Fantasy, Alternate history
- Subjects: 1970’s, Communism or communists, Politics, Paris, Elections, Assassination, Democracy, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Crimean War
- Locales: Paris, France, Moscow, Russia, Crimea
Characters Discussed
Andrei Arsenievich Luchnikov (ahr-seh- NIH-yeh-vihch LEWCH-nih-kov), the handsome, Oxford-educated, red-mustached, forty-five-year-old editor of the Russian-language publication Courier. He supports Crimea’s unification with the Soviet Union. After exploring Russia alone, he returns to Crimea, lives with Tanya, and wins the Crimea Rally. His victory propels his political cause, so that Crimea requests unification with Russia.
Arseny Nicholaevich Luchnikov (ahr- SEH-nee nih-koh-LA-yeh-vihch), Andrei’s father, nearly eighty years old, a...
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