Emelyan Pugachev (2-volume set)

Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov is known as the author of the novel Gloom-River, a historical saga, which in its popularity can argue with the Quiet Don by Mikhail Sholokhov. However, the author himself considered it not this novel by his main work. The last years of his life, Vyacheslav Shishkov worked on the historical epic “Emelian Pugachev”, which became the final book of the writer.
In Pugachev, Shishkov, relying on numerous historical documents, painstakingly recreated the life of Catherinean Russia of the 18th century, when an uprising broke out in the distant Urals, like a hungry flame quickly covering huge territories. At the head of this swift rebellion was a man who declared himself an emperor, a mysterious, imperious, merciless Don Cossack named Emelian Pugachev. Roman Vyacheslav Shishkova not only tells the story of this unusual person, but also draws a clear and detailed picture of the life and life of Russia from the time of Empress Catherine the Second