'Black Castle Olshansky' is a historical adventure novel by Vladimir Karatkevich. The secrets of an ancient castle, medieval legends, and a modern investigation intertwine in a gripping plot. Detective fiction, mysticism, and the history of Belarus all in one volume.
Book in Belarusian
Vladimir Korotkevich (1930–1984) was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, playwright, screenwriter, and translator; a classic of Belarusian literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was one of the few writers of the Soviet era who managed, through artistic expression, to restore to an entire people a sense of their own history and national dignity.
He was born in Orsha into an intellectual family. He learned to read at the age of three and a half, and wrote his first poems at six.…
