Two bestseller in one volume! The best novels about the greatest princes, under the rule of which the Russian land entered its Golden Age, reaching the peaks of prosperity and power – even the Western chroniclers of the beginning of the 12th century recognized that Kyiv and Novgorod are more beautiful and cleaner than Paris!
The unloved youngest son of Vladimir Saint, Prince Yaroslav, was forced to go to power through blood and betrayal – but was remembered by the descendants not by sins and crimes, which no ruler is able to avoid, but as Yaroslav the Wise. He gave Rus’ the long -awaited world, unity, firm power and fair laws – the famous “Russian truth”. He defeated the predatory Pechenegs and strengthened the southern borders, built churches and cities, founded the first Russian monasteries, set up the first Russian metropolitan and related to most royal houses in Europe. His grandson Vladimir Monomakh reached even more, on the account of which 80 successful campaigns and a decisive victory over the Polovtsy, for a whole generation, securing Russian borders from the step …
Author
Pavlishcheva Natalya Pavlovna, Sedugin Vasily Ivanovich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
The initial Rus’. The best bestsellers
Genre
Modern domestic prose
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