Prince Serebryany
12 hrs. 53 min.
Description
"The Prince of Silver" is Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s historical novel about the cruel times of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible and the oprichnina.
“In regard to the horrors of that period, the author remained constantly below history. Out of respect for art and the reader’s moral sensibility, he cast a shadow over them and showed them, as far as possible, from a distance. When reading sources, the book more than once slipped from the author’s hands, and he would throw his pen down in indignation—not so much because the thought could exist of Ivan IV, but because society could exist that looked at him without indignation. This heavy feeling constantly interfered with the necessary objectivity in an epic work, and was partly the reason the novel, started more than ten years ago, was finished only this year.”
“In regard to the horrors of that period, the author remained constantly below history. Out of respect for art and the reader’s moral sensibility, he cast a shadow over them and showed them, as far as possible, from a distance. When reading sources, the book more than once slipped from the author’s hands, and he would throw his pen down in indignation—not so much because the thought could exist of Ivan IV, but because society could exist that looked at him without indignation. This heavy feeling constantly interfered with the necessary objectivity in an epic work, and was partly the reason the novel, started more than ten years ago, was finished only this year.”
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