Stalin’s Meteorologist

<p><i>Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018</i><br><br><b>The beautifully illustrated heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag told for the first time in English.</b><br><br>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. <br><br>Less than a year before Alexey Wangenheim &#150; a celebrated meteorologist &#150; 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.<br><br><i>Stalin&#146;s Meteorologist</i> 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.</p>