Golden Scarab. Alekseeva A.

In the novel “Golden Scarab”, the story of the Stroganov family is traced. Peter I did not really like the titled nobility and gave Stroganov, this energetic, active, talented people, his naming - “eminent people”. There were two families, Stroganovs and Demidovs in the Urals. About these surnames, whose representatives left a noticeable mark in history and will be discussed. However, the story is whimsical, capricious and changeable: he loves some and despises others, he chooses completely unknown people in “heroes” and offers them to the pedestal; It will hold them in a high place - and drops into oblivion into oblivion.

In this book, the author also supports the line of the Stroganov and Demidovs with the study of the fate of the ordinary Russian family, its representatives - the deaths, Sozonov, and Kashins.