The novel “Favorite” is a multifaceted work in which a huge layer of historical reality is raised, a wide fabric of Russia’s life of the second half of the 18th century is given. The author depicts an era through the prism of the actions of the protagonist – the brightest Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin -Tauride, the favorite of Catherine II; A person is a complex, largely contradictory, but, of course, talented and smart, decisively invading state affairs and saw his duty in Russia’s ministry.
The novel “Favorite” is first published with portraits of heroes from the writer’s personal archive, who for many years collecting a unique collection of the Russian portrait.
Author
Pikul Valentin Savvich
Publisher
AST, 2010
Series
The great fate of Russia
Genre
Classical domestic prose
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