“Roman” Cleaning from John “is written according to the initial version of the script of the film” Tsar “(director Pavel Lungin). This is a story about the sharpest moment of Russian history: about the confrontation of Tsar Ivan the Terrible and Metropolitan Philip. This time of the rampant of the oprichnina, the time of fierce torture and executions. The king calls for a childhood friend, the abyss of the Solovetsky monasteries. Philip, becoming a metropolitan, Philip sees his duty to intercede for the victims of the outrages created by his minions.
… Pavel Lungin and I have several different metropolitans. For him, Philip is an ideal person of the Renaissance, and for me it is ordinary, even peasant. My option is in the book, it is in the film ”(Alexey Ivanov).
Author
Ivanov Alexey Viktorovich
Publisher
AST, 2014
Series
Prose of Alexei Ivanov
Genre
Modern domestic prose
18+
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