Blog of Vseslav the Sorcerer

In "Blog of Vseslav the Sorcerer" Pavel Kastsyukevich masterfully combines medieval Polotsk and the irony of modern life. The werewolf prince shares with readers his adventures, love dramas, lamentations about the imperfections of society, and even time travel. This is a fun story, full of allusions and cultural codes, where history and the present are intertwined in unexpected satirical prose.

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Pavel Kastyukevich in the "Blog of Vsiaslav the Magician" finds common features in the times of the Polotsk Principality and hipsters in the calm of 2013, recalling the cultural codes of the years when smoothies and veganism were at their peak.

“The Tatar-Mongols came. Of course, I immediately turned into a wolf and took a more effective pose. But they say: “As for us, we don’t care whether you are a man or a wolf. We came for tribute, and whoever gives it to us is purple. And in general, we are not Tatar-Mongols, but Polovtsians…”

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The Polotsk prince Usiaslau Charadzei (aka Pavel Kastyukevich) is a thousand years ahead of Horvat and other truth-tellers in maintaining a blog, in which the colors of feudal times flourished: veganism, political correctness, feudalism and ultraviolence from a smoothie. Usiaslau confides his own life in his diary, laments the imperfections of his contemporary society, shares his love experiences and even tells about his fantastic journeys through time and Belarusian history. Many centuries before people howled that a man is a wolf to a man, the crowned werewolf convinces that a wolf to a Belarusian is a man.

"The sorcerer shares with the reader in modern language what it's like to be in the skin of a werewolf and at the same time rule the medieval Principality of Polotsk."