“A book jacket is replaced by a thick cardboard box. Inside the book, instead of pages, there are sheaves of letters, photos, and newspaper and magazine clippings tied up with a hemp string, a Christmas card, and a cigarette box cover. Sham objects are made with so much skill, they imitate the texture, the manner of execution and the style of aged things from the past. [The book] reproduces almost all of Savchenko’s photographic series since the early 90s and combines them with an epic work of literature: Russia and Germany, love and parting, patriotic models of both Soviet and German nazism, destruction and reconstruction, enthusiasm of great construction sites, armaments build-up, preparation for and beginning of the Second World War.

"The events of an epoch-making historical picture have capriciously broken into scraps of an unfinished novel. A novelist-mystifier and simultaneously, an agent and an observer, nearly a spy, Savchenko acts, at the same time, as a researcher of modern history and as a painter of battle scenes.” From a review by Tatiana Salzirn. This book received the 2nd degree award at the Book Art 2001 contest in Belarus. Text in Russian with an English translation available at www.nsys.by/savchenko