Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky (1829-1890), the author of popular novels from the history of Russia and Ukraine of the XVIII-XIX centuries, was revered not only in their homeland, but also in Europe, where about a hundred translations of various works were published. The ability to create a flavor of the era and the entertainment of the plot gained the glory of the “Russian Cooper” to him. Among his most famous works, the trilogy “Fugitives in New Russia”, “Fugitives turned back” and “New places”, where life in the Azov steppes and the basis of the plot are unusually romantic, the exploits of robbers, chases and mysterious murders, as well as “burned Moscow” about the events of 1812 and “Black Year” about the uprising of Pugachev. Princess Tarakanova is one of Danilevsky’s most striking novels. The action in it unfolds during the reign of Catherine II, when the impostors and adventurers of all stripes turned out to be the “wrong” of the Enlightenment of Enlightenment with his desire to create society on the basics of good and justice. The brilliant and tragic fate of the selfless princess …
Author
Danilevsky Grigory Petrovich
Publisher
Ig Lenizdat, 2013
Series
Lenizza-classic
Genre
Classical domestic prose
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