Град обреченный

V to, chto luchshiĭ, ėtalonnyĭ obrazet͡s otechestvennoĭ fantastiki - "Grad obrechennyĭ" bratʹev Strugat͡skikh - byl zaduman eshche v kont͡se 60-kh gg., a zavershen v 1972-m, - TRUDNO POVERITʹ, slishkom uzh porazitelʹna, nevozmozhna dli͡a tekh vremen stepenʹ vnutrenneĭ svobody ėtogo romana. TAK ne pisali dazhe "v stol"… TAKOE kazalosʹ neveroi͡atnym. Odnako vsi͡a neveroi͡atnai͡a, pochti detektivnai͡a istorii͡a sudʹby "Grada obrechennogo", predstavlennai͡a v "Kommentarii͡akh" k romanu, zastavli͡aet poveritʹ - bylo IMENNO TAK. I chitatʹ roman ot ėtogo tolʹko interesnee!

It is HARD TO BELIEVE that the best, standard example of Russian fiction — "The Doomed City" by the Strugatsky brothers — was conceived in the late 60s, and completed in 1972, it is too amazing, impossible for those times, the degree of inner freedom of this novel. They didn't even write that way "on the table"... IT seemed incredible. However, the whole incredible, almost detective story of the fate of the "Doomed City", presented in the "Comments" to the novel, makes you believe that it was EXACTLY LIKE THAT. And it only makes reading a novel more interesting!