Junaidkhan

The novel “Junaidkhan” is dedicated to the dramatic events in Khorezm during the years of the collapse of imperial power and the Civil War. At the center of the story is the figure of Junaidkhan, one of the most controversial leaders of the Turkmen resistance, and the fate of people drawn into a cruel whirlpool of violence, revenge and struggle for power. Cheprunov shows the complex interweaving of tribal traditions, religious authorities, social conflicts and external interference, creating a polyphonic picture of an era in which none of the sides has absolute truth.

The novel was published in 1936, on the eve of the Great Terror. In 1937, the author was arrested and in 1938 executed. Posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.

with a foreword by Viktor Erofeev