A Welsh Award-Winning Novel on Russia: Petrograd by Wiliam Owen Roberts
Journal: Studia Celto-Slavica
Year: 2012

In our paper we present the novel Petrograd by the Welsh author Wiliam Owen Roberts, written in Welsh. Winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2009 award, this substantial 544-page volume is the first part of a trilogy dedicated to the fates of Russian well-to-do families in years previous and following the revolutionary year 1917. Taking his inspiration from Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard, as well as the works of Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorkij and Alexi Tolstoj, the Welsh author writes full of sy