Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin environment He gives us a new

He gives us a new portrait of the artist as never before seen: a shy but devoted lover

Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Soviet Ukraine

And all of this is bound together by Anya's sardonic wit

Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin environment He gives us a newMoscow 2028: Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czar's inner circle of trusted courtiers, rouses himself from a drunken stupor and prepares for another day of debauchery, violence, terror and beauty. In this New Russia, futuristic technology combine with the draconian world of Ivan the Terrible to create a dystopia chillingly akin to reality. Over the twenty four hour span of the novel, Komiaga will rape, pillage and torture, in the