In fact, Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich were not legendary heroes, but by the very real combatants of Prince Vladimir Monomakh, and in reality everything happened completely differently than in epics.
This historical romance makes a fairy tale by the past, turning the myth into a living story. Russian heroes here are shown not by fabulous characters “without fear and reproach”, but by people from the flesh and blood who love and hate, quarrel and make up, do not only exploits, but also sins. They do not fight with mythical monsters, but with the real enemies of the Russian land – not disdaining, however, to participate in the bloody princely feuds …
The book resurrects the “beautiful and fierce world” of our warlike ancestors who lived and died so that the epics were composed of them, and inscribed their names with “iron and blood” not only in history, but also in the folk epic.
Author
Nikolaev Vadim Danilovich
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
The initial Rus’
Genre
Modern domestic prose
16+
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