Stories from Russian history

This book includes stories dedicated to some significant milestones of domestic history: overcoming the Mongol-Tatar yoke, collecting lands around Moscow and turning the Russian capital into the spiritual center of the Ecumenical Orthodoxy, the further development of Russian statehood into the era of Ivan the Terrible. Their heroes are kings and church hierarchs, warriors and schemes, noble princes and service people, and all unites all - faith in the provocative of God"s care of Russia and the ability to spiritual feat.
Written by a vivid, figurative language, stories reflect a deep understanding by the author of the spiritual meaning of Russian history, determined not by earthly laws, but by “the waves of God, crushing the rank of nature and the near human calculation” (Metro. John (Snychev), 1927–1995) . In the current difficult time, the book remains relevant, helping to find the answer to the question: what allowed the people of Russia, in various eras of more than once on the verge of historical non -being, to always find a way out of a fatal crisis. Addressed to a wide range of readers. The publication partially preserved author"s spelling and punctuation. The book is richly illustrated and made by a full -color seal.
Apollo Nikolaevich Maykov (1821–1897) gained wide fame as a wonderful poet. At the same time, a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, he was seriously fond of history, shared the ideas of the Slavophiles, close friendship connected A. N. Maykov with F. M. Dostoevsky