Zigzags of Fate (en Inglés) - Alexander Demontfort

Orest Monfor

Zigzags of Fate

Orest Monfor was a Russian nobleman whose life went through many extraordinary turns: a graduate of a Classical Gymnasium, a student of Imperial University, a staff captain the Tsarist Army, a colonel of the Red Army, a military instructor at Moscow University, a prisoner of a concentration camp, an unofficial employee of the OGPU, a freelance economist in the GULAG, an agent of NKVD, a builder of the Moscow - Volga Canal, an informant against his own comrades, a merchandiser at a Moscow brewery, an inspector in a Russian Ministry, a farther who outlived his killed son, a family man who fathered a son with his married housemaid and brought him up in his family.

In the complex and contradictory fate of Orest Monfor, the zigzags of conscious decisions intertwine with random events that took place in Russia at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries.