Cry. Zorin E.

Russia, 1876. The news of Turkish atrocities in the Balkans reaches Emperor Alexander II. In court and in the army, Slavophile sentiments dominate. And even the revolutionaries, who tirelessly hunt gendarmes, in many respects agree with the authorities who are in power-the Slav brothers need to help. Everyone is sure that Russia should start a war with Turkey. Only the elderly Prince Gorchakov, responsible for foreign policy, insists on caution, because this war can quarrel Russia with the Western powers. However, a clash with Turkey is inevitable, ultimately the “Slavic question” will not be resolved in the offices, but on the battlefields, and people like the Minister of War Milyutin and General Stoletov will decide it...

“Klich” - The last completed novel of the famous writer-historian Edward Zorin (1931-1989). Reprinted in honor of the 90th birthday of the author.