During this time, he meets a young man and local 'Brahmin', Daniel. He is told to wait a day, and he does just that, spending his time exploring Polis. He is welcomed by the guard's commander and informs the man that he has a message for Melnik. This inspires Artyom, and he resumes his trek to Polis, and finally arrives there. But if you make the right decision, then the things that happen to you are no longer just random events".
Artyom sits and talks with these men for quite some time, and finally hears something he needed to hear: "It may happen something happens to you that forces you to perform specific actions and make specific decisions, keeping in mind you have free will, and you can do this or that. Artyom arrives at Polyanka and overhears a discussion about Metro-2, a mysterious subway system meant to connect major government buildings in the case of disaster. After entering Serphukhovskaya and briefly checking his direction, Artyom again dives into the darkness of the tunnels. Artyom eventually tires of the fundamentalist teachings about God, escapes the station, and again begins his journey to Polis. The Watchtower seemed to be a monastery of sorts and offers Artyom shelter. He is approached by a strange man in a robe, named Brother Timothy, who offers to take him to the Watchtower. After wandering for some time he sits down, contemplating whether to continue his journey. After five days of latrine-cleaning, Artyom manages to escape the station and heads into an unknown tunnel. Unfortunately, Mark's rat loses the bet, and Artyom and Mark are sentenced to a one year term of shovelling manure. If they lose, then the chief would make them shovel manure for a year on the Paveletskaya-Ring. Mark acquires a rat, for betting in a rat race, and makes a wager against the station chief that if their rat wins the next race, both Artyom and Mark will receive visas, for which they will need to travel through Hanseatic League. While not under the Red Line banner, these communists are much more associated with Marxist ideals.Īrtyom is eventually dropped off at Paveletskaya and befriends a man named Mark. As he is about to be executed, he is rescued by the Revolutionaries. After another run-in with the Fourth Reich, Artyom is apprehended for murdering a station guard. While fleeing the station, Artyom comes across an old man and helps him, who in turn helps Artyom get to his next destination, Kuznetsky Most. After making their way through the perilous tunnel, Khan and Artyom reached Kitai Gorod, where they become separated during an attack by an infamous enemy, the Fourth Reich. Reluctantly, he opts to go with Khan and ends up making the right decision. He could keep travelling with Khan, or he could begin traveling with the rest of the people, relying purely on numbers to fend off the tunnel's monsters. They first need to gather force to travel through a strange tunnel. After this, Khan and Artyom plan a route to Artyom's ultimate goal, Polis. Helping Artyom retrieve Bourbon's equipment, Artyom discovers that Bourbon never planned to pay him at all, and probably planned on killing him. Luckily for Artyom, a mysterious stranger arrives Khan. Eventually, Artyom's travels with Bourbon come to a tragic end, when Bourbon seemingly slips into insanity and dies. In exchange for a hefty amount of cartridges and an assault rifle, Artyom promises to help Bourbon getting through several tunnels. 1.1 Epilogue: The Gospel According to ArtyomĪfter escorting a caravan to a member of the VDNKh Commonwealth, Artyom meets a man: Bourbon.Purple lines are tunnel routes and orange lines are surface routes. Glukhovsky later wrote another book - Metro 2035 - which is set 2 years after the first novel and continues the story of Artyom.Īrtyom's approximate journey in Metro 2033 novel, starting at VDNKh and moving south. Although set in the same world, it is not a direct sequel to Metro 2033 and does not feature the same protagonist. The novel contains elements of science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, and dystopia, in which Russia's 'present-day' society is meticulously analysed and described. The book describes the consequences of an atomic war: its only survivors strive for existence in the mazes of the Moscow metro system some two decades after the nuclear Holocaust. Metro 2033 (Russian: Метро 2033), by Russian journalist/author Dmitry Glukhovsky, tells the story of a young man named Artyom who traverses the dangers of his apocalyptic world to save it from the new threat from the north. Dear Muscovites and guests to our capital! The Moscow metro is a form of transportation which involves a heightened level of danger.