Fugitive in Novorossia. Danilevsky Grigory Petrovich

Russian writer Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky (1829-1890) is known mainly as the author of entertaining historical novels. His novels about fugitive serfs are undeservedly forgotten - “Feeling in New Russia” and “Will” (“Fugitives rolled up”), written under the fresh impression of the heated atmosphere of pre -reference years and the waves of peasant uprisings, which swept through Russia after the declaration of peasant reform.

In the novel “Feeling in New Russia”, Danilevsky showed the peasant “will”, obtained by the shoot. The heroes of the novel are peasants who fled from serfdom, from the hosts of the oppressors, and they fell into an even more terrible bondage, rise to active protest. They stand for honor, for a good name, for true Christian values.