Dmitry Glukhovsky is a popular Russian writer, author of the bestsellers Metro 2033, The Future, and Text, and screenwriter of the recent television series The Mire. In Post, Dmitry returns to the post-apocalyptic style, but sets it against a profound philosophical backdrop, rethinking questions of faith, history, and power. After the bloody Civil War, only a small part of the former Russia remains, the eastern border of which runs along the Volga, a poisoned river that has turned into an impassable barrier. The eastern borders of the state are guarded by outposts—small fortresses, one of which is located near the ruins of Yaroslavl, on the railway bridge over the Volga. For twenty years, no one has come from the other side. Until that very day...

Abstract

After a short and fierce civil war, only a small part of the former Russia remained, which calls itself the Muscovite Empire. Its eastern borders run just a few hundred kilometers from the capital, along the Volga - poisoned, turned into an insurmountable barrier. Since the Collapse, no one has come to Muscovy from beyond the Volga.

Million-year-old Moscow itself stands unshakable, reliably protected on all sides by guard posts. Here the Emperor himself reviews the Cossack troops. He will choose the best of the best, the bravest of the brave, to send them to the dark lands that were once part of great Russia - before they are engulfed in rebellion and anathematized.