Pitchfork. See the Russian riot. Ivanov A.

“Do not bring God to see the Russian riot - meaningless and merciless,”? ”Pushkin wrote in the“ Captain's daughter ”... and removed the chapter from the novel with these words. The words are beautiful, but incorrect. The Russian rebellion is not at all meaningless. Not always merciless. And to see him is a cruel impression, but for reason and soul a purification.

Riot Emelyan Pugachev shook the Russian Empire in 1773-1775. For Russia, it was a time of absolutism and world leadership. But how did the era of education gave rise to the Horde demands of the rebels? In the Pugachevshchina, everything is very difficult. She had very bizarre reasons and was heterogeneous to fantastic. The book of Alexei Ivanov “Vila” is a search for an answer to the question “What is Pugachevshchina?”

this question can be formulated differently: “What is Russia from the inside?” The author offers his methodology of the answer: "To apply history to the territory." Go now, in the 21st century, the ancient roads of the great riot and try to understand who we are on this earth.