Genghis Khan. Batu. To the "last sea"
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Genghis Khan. Batu. To the "last sea"
19.99 €
The historical novels of the Russian Soviet writer Vasily Yan, Genghis Khan (1939), Batu Khan (1942), and To the Last Sea (1955), together comprising the trilogy The Invasion of the Mongols, tell of the conquests of the Mongol-Tatar tribes in Central Asia and Europe in the first half of the 13th century. With fire and sword, paving the way from the east to the west, hordes of nomads under the leadership of Genghis Khan subjugate the Khorezm kingdom, and a decade and a half later, the troops of his grandson, Khan Batu, set off through the Polovtsian steppes, the Volga region and the Caucasus to Rus', fragmented into separate principalities, capture Ryazan, Moscow, Vladimir, Kyiv and other Russian cities, after which they rush to the countries of Central Europe, to the Atlantic Ocean, to create an empire stretching from sea to sea... Cruel and bloody skirmishes in the attacked lands, the heroic defense of besieged cities, the councils of the great khan and popular gatherings - in this kaleidoscopic change of scenes and events, a powerful whirlpool of history manifests itself, capturing both all-powerful rulers and mere mortals, and an individual, and entire nations...
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