Princess Tarakanova

7 hrs. 10 min.

Language Russian

Author Grigory Danilevsky

Narrator Alexey Kovalev

Description

The story of Princess Tarakanova is only one episode of the Catherine era, but a significant one. The years of Catherine II’s reign were the “golden age” in Russia’s history. It was a time of astonishing human destinies: incredible rises and falls. Favorites and impostors, adventurers of every kind turned out to be the “underside” of the Age of Enlightenment, with its striving to create a society based on goodness and justice. The fate of the impostor princess who claimed the Russian throne in the 1770s has unfailingly attracted the attention of historical novelists. G. P. Danilevsky succeeded in creating a novel that has not lost readers’ interest to this day.