Echo in the Dark. Journal Version

The end of 1975. Leningrad. , Student George, the only son of the couple Krasnopolskaya December 15 did not return home. At the same time it disappeared and a professor of mathematical physics, who worked as George. , Search the professor engaged staff Committee of State Security. , Spouses Krasnopolsky becomes aware that the disappearance of his son may be related to the events on December 14 when the dissidents attempted to informally mentioned the sesquicentennial of the Decembrist uprising and were detained by police. Krasnopolskiy Sr. since the forties familiar with the general retired KGB Fedor Ignatievich Onegin and turns to for help. General promises to help in the search. Investigation, meanwhile, is continuing, but the couple Krasnopolsky think that gebisty do not work very actively, and they begin to search handwritten. * * * Sergei Solovyov (b. In 1956 in Leningrad). By profession - mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Toulouse (France). In 1985-1991 gg. Member Workshop Boris Strugatsky. In the literature, he made his debut in 1990 (story "The coffin at the entrance"). In 1993 he published the novel "The Name Day". Published a number of stories (in the train. "Literary Studies, Lettres Russes et al.), The story "lesser of evils" (Almanac "feat", 2008), the poem "The Phantom" (1991), a translation of the poem The Waste Land TC Eliot (Urbi, XXIV, 2000), popular science articles (in then. "Chemistry and Life", "New Literary Review").