Great Rus'. Ivanov V.D.

Valentin Ivanov is known to readers primarily as the author of epoch -making historical novels addressed to the past of Ancient Rus': “Primordial Rus'”, “Tales of Ancient years”, “Great Rus'”. This edition presents the final cycle of the novel “The Great”. Starting to work on the book, the author defined his plan: “I want to be in the XI century. This is Vladimir Monomakh, in Europe - the conquest of England by the Normans, the first crusade. In Asia, nomads swirl at the Great Wall. In the Roman Empire-Henry, who had a Russian princess-wife. And the whole world is turbulent, the whole world is seething no worse than now, although there were much less people in it... ”

and indeed, the writer did not limit himself to the description in the book of Great Rus', he moves“ through countries and continents through XI century ”, from the shores of America to the Mongol steppes, from Rus' to Byzantium. And each chapter is a separate story. At the same time, all parts are a single novel, the main theme of which is the formation of a powerful Russian state against the backdrop of world historical cataclysms.