Corsair Ivan the Terrible

In the Publishing House of Nigma in the series "Red Capal", one of the most famous works of the author of historical works and historical-adventure novels, Soviet writer Konstantin Sergeyevich Badigin, is released.
The historical novel "Korsara Ivan the Terrible" talks about the years of the reign of Ivan the Terrible, marked with a stubborn struggle for going to the Baltic Sea, opening the way to free trade and prosperity of the state.
In the second half of the 16th century, the situation in Russia was heated to the limit. The treasury is exhausted by the protracted Livonian war, from the south to Russian land, the Crimean Khan Devlet -Girey raids, hunger and plague are rampant in the central regions of the country, and in Moscow, Tsar Ivan the Terrible is busy with brutal reprisal with his enemies - real and imaginary. In this difficult period, the Swedish and Lithuanian ships block Narva - an important trading port. To combat the sea robbery, the king accepts Karsten Rode for the service of the Danish sailor, who is instructed to create a Russian Corsair Fleet.
On the pages of the book of the reader, an exciting plexus of events and fates awaits. The formidable royal guardsmen and ordinary peasants, brave warriors and sailors, the merchants of the Stroganovs, laying new trade routes and mastering new lands in Siberia, moving the borders of the Russian state - the heroes of the novel will have to go a long way ...
For senior school age