The middle of the XII century. Rus’ descends into the hell of feudal fragmentation, strife and feuds – the princes mercilessly cut down for power, without disdaining either treason or the help of the “filthy”, or fratricide, betraying the native land of fire and a sword and washing themselves with blood.
This mortal bowl and Andrei Bogolyubsky did not pass. The son of Yuri Dolgoruky, who was released by the military daring, even among the fearless Rurikovich (“Andrei loved to be forgotten in the height of Sich, to be entered into the most dangerous landfill, did not notice how the helmet was knocked down”), the builder of the Assumption Cathedral and the Church of the Pokrov on the Nerl, under other circumstances, he could become one of the best princes of Ancient Rus’, but was “enormous” Temples and the wise rule, and the most severe pogrom of Kyiv, from which the “mother of the cities of Russians” did not recover even a century later, and finished his life bitterly and terribly, stabbed in his own seizure by traitors-weakers …
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Author
Sedugin Vasily Ivanovich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2012
Series
The initial Rus’
Genre
Classical domestic prose
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