Prince Silver. Tolstoy A.K.

The poetry of Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-75) is multifaceted and wide: ballads, epics, satirical and lyrical poems and poems. Many of his works are put on music and became famous romances, among which “my bells, steppe flowers...”, “It was early in the spring...”, “In the middle of the noisy ball by chance...”, etc.

One of his main prosaic successes is the historical novel “Prince Serebryany”, which is part of this publication. “The story of the times of John the Terrible” - this is how the author himself determined the genre of the work telling about the brutal times of the reign of Ivan IV Grozny.