Emelyan Pugachev. Book 2: Roman. Shishkov V.Ya.

The second book of the famous historical epic resurrects the dramatic events in Russia of the XVIII century. Unbridled customs, wild passions, conspiracies, intricacies of intrigues at the court of the “mother-sovereign” of Catherine II, as sweet-loving as it is cruel. And next to her, the famous state men... Meanwhile, the Cossack and the peasant freemen, led by Pugachev, who declared himself Tsar Peter III, is torn from the steppes covered by rebellion, to Moscow and St. Petersburg. But so far it has not been possible to take Orenburg...