About the book: 2016 / History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood, but amazing and almost mystical coincidences still happen in it. On August 17, 1914, the Russian army of General Rennenkampf crossed the border of East Prussia, and in the same place, exactly thirty years later, on August 17, 1944, the Red Army first reached the borders of Germany. Russian officers ascended to their Golgotha ​​in 1914, but then the Resurrection - the salvation of the Motherland - did not happen. And now they are returning to Golgotha ​​again in the literal and metaphysical sense. After all, the place where Russian troops were preparing for an offensive in August 1914 and autumn 1944 is called Lithuanian Kalvaria, which means Golgotha ​​in Latin. The fate of Russia and two great wars, the metaphysics of history and individual human life, love and death, loss and hope find a piercing and authentic sound in Boris Bartfeld’s novel “Return to Golgotha”.