Grey Legend. Ladzya Rosspachy. Gypsy King

The books of Uladzimir Karatkevich are stories in which love, freedom, and human destinies intertwine with myths and legends.

In the ancient Belarusian past, Uladzimir Karatkevich discovered and retold to his contemporaries dramatic, poignant stories about love, nobility, and an indestructible love for life. The crimson nobleman Raman Rakutovich incites a peasant rebellion to win freedom for his humiliated compatriots and for his beloved, the serf Irina ("The Gray Legend"). What refined and cruel punishment do the merciless judges prepare for the lovers? Hervasy Vylivakha, the hero of "The Boat of Despair," spends his time at cheerful games and in amorous adventures. "The outrageous rogue" does not yet know who his last woman in life will be, what his last love will be, and how his chess match with Lady Death will end. Fantasy, mysticism, horrors, gallows humor – this work contains everything that entices in literary baroque. The nobleman Mikhal Yanouski is destined to enter the dreamlike kingdom of the Roma and meet His Majesty Jakub the First... ("The Gypsy King").