The Old Man (Trifonov novel)

1979 Russian edition
(publ. Советский писатель)

The Old Man (Russian: Старик) is a 1978 historical novel by Yury Trifonov. The novel details the investigations of Pavel, a retired revolutionary, into the killing of a Cossack officer in his youth against the background of his purchase of a retirement dacha.^[1]

References

^ Edward James Brown Russian Literature Since the Revolution 1982 -- Page 316 0674782046 "Trifonov's novel The Old Man (1978) takes up again the moral problems confronted in The House on the Embankment and in some earlier pieces. In the later novel Pavel, an old revolutionary in his seventies and in rapidly failing health, makes a last effort to discover the truth about an episode of his youth in which a Cossack officer in the Red Army, Migulin, had been tried and shot as a traitor."

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[1] Edward James Brown Russian Literature Since the Revolution 1982 -- Page 316 0674782046 "Trifonov's novel The Old Man (1978) takes up again the moral problems confronted in The House on the Embankment and in some earlier pieces. In the later novel Pavel, an old revolutionary in his seventies and in rapidly failing health, makes a last effort to discover the truth about an episode of his youth in which a Cossack officer in the Red Army, Migulin, had been tried and shot as a traitor."

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