Download or read book The Archivist's Story written by Travis Holland and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow, 1939. The great author Isaac Babel is spending his last days in the infamous Lubyanka prison, forbidden to write. His final works have been consigned to the young archivist Pavel Dubrov, who must destroy them. But Pavel makes a reckless decision in the face of a vast bureaucracy of evil: he will save the stories of the writer he so admires, whatever the cost...