Lord Veliky Novgorod. Marfa the Mayoress
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Lord Veliky Novgorod. Marfa the Mayoress
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The novella “Lord Novgorod the Great” (1967) marked the beginning of the writing career of the Russian philologist, folklorist and historian Dmitry Balashov, the author of the famous cycle of historical novels “The Sovereigns of Moscow”. The scholar’s first literary experience paved the way for a larger-scale work, the novel “Marfa the Mayoress” (1972), also dedicated to dramatic episodes in the history of the Novgorod Republic.
The very first literary works of Dmitry Balashov are characterized by the characteristic features of his mature creative style: both the novella and the novel that followed it extremely convincingly and reliably depicted the life of Novgorod society in those distant centuries, its everyday and spiritual way of life. Having populated the ancient republic with expressive characters, partly historical, partly fictional, Balashov transformed not only the speech of his heroes, but also the author’s text into a masterful stylization of the language of ancient Russian literary monuments.
This collection includes both works of the "Novgorod cycle". The story "Lord Novgorod the Great" is dedicated to the heroic era of the Novgorod Republic and tells of the campaign in Livonia in 1268 and the grand victory in the Battle of Rakovor. The action of the novel "Marfa the Mayoress" takes the reader to 1471-1478, to the thick of the conflict between the Novgorod Republic and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which ended with the collapse of the veche system...
The very first literary works of Dmitry Balashov are characterized by the characteristic features of his mature creative style: both the novella and the novel that followed it extremely convincingly and reliably depicted the life of Novgorod society in those distant centuries, its everyday and spiritual way of life. Having populated the ancient republic with expressive characters, partly historical, partly fictional, Balashov transformed not only the speech of his heroes, but also the author’s text into a masterful stylization of the language of ancient Russian literary monuments.
This collection includes both works of the "Novgorod cycle". The story "Lord Novgorod the Great" is dedicated to the heroic era of the Novgorod Republic and tells of the campaign in Livonia in 1268 and the grand victory in the Battle of Rakovor. The action of the novel "Marfa the Mayoress" takes the reader to 1471-1478, to the thick of the conflict between the Novgorod Republic and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which ended with the collapse of the veche system...
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