Batu. Yan V.

Vasily Grigoryevich Yangvevetsky (V. Yang; 1875-1954) created the historical trilogy “The Invasion of the Mongols” - the novels “Genghis Khan”, “Batu” and “To the last sea”. The novel "Baty" was published in 1942, during the Great Patriotic War. And the author contributed to the fight against the Nazis - he wrote a book about the grandson of Genghis Khan, the brutal tyrant of Batu, who also sought to conquer the "all the universe." The writer showed the struggle of Batu for power, and then the seizure and ruin of Rus'.

c. Jan recreates the heroic picture of the struggle of the Russian people against the Mongol-Tatar conquerors. However, the principalities fought alone. In the era of feudal fragmentation, the princes did not create the United Army to fight the enemy.

The book is included in the list of “100 books on the history, culture and literature of the peoples of the Russian Federation, recommended by schoolchildren for independent reading.”