Russian zorro, or the true story of the noble robber Vladimir Dubrovsky

The novelty from the author of the bestsellers “1916/War and Peace” and “American”.
About the crimes of Vladimir Dubrovsky became known from a novel that never existed. What was the true story of a noble robber?
A fascinating historical novel will appeal to connoisseurs of subtle prose and dizzying adventures!
A dashing cavalryman-chubby and the capital"s gang, a lover and guards officer, for whom honor is above all, becomes a robber when a powerful neighbor takes his estate, and the love of the enemy’s daughter makes a young man in the world.
This story in the fall of 1832 told Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. The first Russian writer, experiencing an acute need for money, tried to turn an uncomplicated plot into a boulevard romance. Soon the idea was bored with him, Pushkin abandoned the drafts, so as not to return to them anymore ... But in 1841, publishers of the posthumous collected works put fragmented sketches in the likeness of the book, calling it Dubrovsky. ” Since then, the novel that never existed has been misleading more and more generations of readers, and about the real Dubrovsky, for the statute of a time, they simply forgot. But who was he still? In what unexpected secrets of the Russian Empire was the young guardsman turned out to be dedicated to, and how did his future fate have developed?
“A smart person could take a ready -made plan, finished characters, correct the syllable and nonsense, complement the omissions - and would have come out a wonderful, original novel.” This advice of Pushkin himself allows, finally, to reveal the true history of the noble robber Vladimir Dubrovsky inquisitive descendants