Minin and Pozharsky: Straight and Crooked Paths in the Time of Troubles
8 hrs. 27 min.
Description
Ivan Egorovich Zabelin, the well-known Russian historian and writer of everyday life, devotes this book to events from 400 years ago—the troubled times of the Time of Troubles—when the People’s Militia under the leadership of Kuzma Minin, a lower-volga town official from Nizhny Novgorod, and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky played a decisive role in the struggle for independence and the revival of Russia.
Through Minin and Pozharsky, Zabelin depicts national heroes—“sacred images of the all-people movement.” Not court intrigue, not revolutions, but a moral and civic turning of society—from “crooked roads to the straight path,” in the author’s view—made it possible to establish “peace and quiet, and the union of the state, as it had been until then…”.
Through Minin and Pozharsky, Zabelin depicts national heroes—“sacred images of the all-people movement.” Not court intrigue, not revolutions, but a moral and civic turning of society—from “crooked roads to the straight path,” in the author’s view—made it possible to establish “peace and quiet, and the union of the state, as it had been until then…”.
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