During the years of Soviet power, both historical science and historical novelistics have done a lot. A colossal fund, or, as they now say, a bank, of data on the past of the Fatherland has accumulated-thousands of books, publications, articles and reviews, hundreds of novels and novellas. Thus, the history of Russia and Russia from the time of Igor and Vladimir Monomakh to the era of Pugachev is reflected, according to the most conservative estimates, in no less than a thousand novels, novellas, poems and other works of art. In the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU "On the creative links of literary and artistic journals with the practice of communist construction" of July 29, 1982, along with great achievements in the artistic understanding of the past, significant shortcomings are also noted:deviations from the truth of life, the inability of some authors to cope with complex material, to consider the phenomena of the past from the finally, ideological confusion 1 . In this regard, it should be noted that in Soviet historical prose, along with undoubted successes, there are still weak works containing errors, which are mentioned in the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Among historical themes and figures, some enjoy constant attention among writers: Kievan Rus and Svyatoslav, Yaroslav the Wise and Vladimir Monomakh; Batu Khan's invasion of Rus; Alexander Nevsky and his sons; the Battle of Kulikovo and Dmitry Donskoy; the unification of Rus, the formation of Russia and Ivan III, Ivan the Terrible; the Polish-Swedish intervention and K. Minin, D. Pozharsky; the beginning of the Russian Empire and Peter I; finally, the era of "enlightened absolutism" and E. I. Pugachev, Catherine II. Epochs and faces are different, but they all represent important stages in our history. Recently, the history of Russia in the second half of the XVIII century, the time of Pugachev and Radishchev, Suvorov and Ushakov, Catherine II and Paul I has attracted i ... Читать далее