Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated
heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag told for the first time in
English.One fateful day in 1934 a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the
Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain he was only a few hundred metres away in a
cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison. Less than a year before Alexey Wangenheim - a
celebrated meteorologist - had been hailed by Stalin as a national hero. But following his
sudden arrest he was exiled to a gulag forced to spend his remaining years on an island in
the frozen north along with thousands of other political prisoners.Stalin's Meteorologist is
the thrilling and deeply moving account of an innocent man caught up in the brutality of Soviet
paranoia. It's a timely reminder of the human consequences of political extremism.
