An Incident at Krechetovka Station is a novella written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and published in the Russian magazine Novy Mir in 1963. It is the only work of prose written by the author that is set in World War II. In later editions of the novella, the author changed the name of the station to "Kochetovka", where the incident took place. The action of the novella takes place only over three or four hours and is written from the viewpoint of a short-sighted character called Lieutenant Vasily Zotov, who is the second in command of the station. The brief incident described involves a soldier and actor, Tveritinov, who has lost his military unit. Zotov is impressed by the actor's persona and is moved when shown photographs of the actor's family. But when Tveritinov asks what was the previous name of Stalingrad, Zotov suspects that he is a spy and has him arrested. Later, Zotov twice asks about the actor only to be told that he "has been taken care of" and "we never make mistakes" – leaving the reader to guess Tveritinov's fate. Solzhenitsyn uses Zotov's short sight as a symbol of Soviet ideology, but Zotov is one of Solzhentsyn's more sympathetically written characters who is loyal to Joseph Stalin, and who has qualities that the author admires. Wikipedia [ - ]

An Incident at Krechetovka Station is a novella written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and published... [ + ]