Nesvizh crisis or paradise regained

"I don't know when I will die, where I will die, or under what circumstances," wrote Uladzislau Akhromenka on his Facebook page on April 17, 2018. Less than six months later, the author of the book published by the Kamunikat.org Foundation prematurely died in Bialystok after a heart attack.

"Niasvizh Crisis" is a collection of prose by Uladzislau Akhromenka of very diverse genres and directions. The reader will find his famous "Conspiracy Theory" here – a thrilling cinematic farce in which the Author paradoxically and harshly raises those Belarusian questions that many are afraid to ask themselves even in their thoughts. There is also "Muses and Pigs" – a book of urban myths, legends, and apocrypha about heroes who changed us. Among the heroes are Dzed Talash, Dmitry Shostakovich, Kim Il-sung, Uladzimir Mulyavin, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, but there are also anonymous actors, directors, musicians, artists, cops, censors, and committee members.

In this collection of prose, we decided to include previously unpublished texts from two unfinished novels: "Niasvizh Crisis" and "The Sound Kidnapper." "Knowing Uladzislau's creative modules," writes his friend and co-author of several books Maksim Klimkovich, "I can say that the first text is about 70% of the intended final volume, and the second is only about 10%."

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Uladzislau Akhromenka was born on January 29, 1965, in Homel into a family of a music college lecturer. From childhood, he was involved in music. He graduated from the Sakalouksi Homel Music College and the Belarusian State Conservatory, piano class. He repeatedly won various music competitions.

But soon he chose another professional pursuit – literature. He worked in thrilling genres – detective, thriller, alternative history, often in collaboration with Maksim Klimkovich. Under pseudonyms, he published about two hundred commercial novels in Russian, some of which were adapted for the screen. Together with Maksim Klimkovich, he created a dramatic adaptation of Maksim Harecki's novel "Two Souls" for the Kupalaŭski Theater.

He was one of the first volunteers and correspondents on the front during the war in eastern Ukraine. For his activity and participation in the events of 2014, he was awarded the medal "For Dignity and Patriotism." On Belarusian Radio Racyja, he hosted a program from the archives of Ukrainian special services called "On the KGB's Register."

He lived in Minsk, and in recent years, in Chernihiv.

On the night of Tuesday, October 30, 2018, Uladzislau Akhromenka suffered a heart attack in Bialystok, after which he fell into a coma. He died on November 9, 2018. He is buried in Minsk at the Western Cemetery.