—— Red Army Sniper ——xnew audience and loses the predictability and ordinariness that
usually accompany such literature in Russia. It is through this
journey of translation that the book gains the status of an original
historical document.
The episodes of military action between 1941 and 1945 have
been reconstructed by the author significantly later – in time for
the fortieth anniversary of Victory Day – and were composed
during times of peace, on the eve of Perestroika and the sunset of
the USSR. Carried across decades, the events detailed in this book
introduce the 21stcentury reader to a colourful representative of
the snipers of the Great Soviet Fatherland; Nikolaev’s words offer a
complete and authentic experience.
Dina Nikolaeva
Granddaughter of
Yevgeni Nikolaev