Body black, white, red

New book Vico Natalia – "the Body is black, white, red" . This is the true story of a young beauty Irina Yakovleva, in fact, the Russian "the Countess of Monte Cristo, the daughter of the future Minister of the Interim government. The film is set in the period from 1916 to 1926 in Russia and France. The heroine of the novel, a fan Unit and Kuzmin, listening to the reasoning of Feodor Chaliapin on the right to revenge.




How many people at all times, with no expectation of justice or God's punishment, to be dealt with offenders, rapists, murderers of their loved ones, finding them worthy of punishment in the riot of his own imagination. But the price paid is the one who decided to become a judge or executioner? Irina does not know that very soon she will have to answer this question...




Natalia Vico, a professional historian, uses data archives, the dry language in her novel becomes vivid. Among the characters of the novel – F. Shalyapin, F. Yusupov, Rasputin, Alexander Kerensky and others. "When it comes to real historical characters, or invent, to ascribe to them certain things, to adjust their life for the sake of the situation, from my point of view, it is immoral," says the author of the novel "the Body is black, white, red".




Books Vico Natalia say about us – about our personal ability to love and to betray, to create and to destroy, worthy to hold court before the cold time. According to critics, novels Vico represent one of the first in modern Russian literature examples of a successful combination of historical reenactment with "women's prose" (although I must say that the author of the division of prose on "female" and "male" does not recognize). The style of Natalia Vico called " a kind of chamber music and post-modernism, which is characterized, on the one hand, "strict Russian psychology" and free movement in time and space."