Minin and Pozharsky

3 hrs. 32 min.

Language Russian

Author Viktor Shklovsky

Narrator Tsypin Artem

Description

Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (1893–1984) — a Russian Soviet writer, literary scholar, and critic, as well as a film scholar and screenwriter. We present to your attention his historical novella about the events of the Time of Troubles (1598–1613).

It was an era of severe upheavals: the country was swept over by despair and betrayal, and many thought only of their own salvation. And yet it was then that people came to the forefront—those who managed to stand against foreign invaders and their local supporters, defending a ravaged Motherland. The focus is on Kozma Minin, the zemstvo head of Nizhny Novgorod, and Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky.

Want to understand the key events in which they played a decisive role? Interested in unexpected details of their biographies? Then listen: «And then follows the story about the people whom the people found. They saved the people because they were raised by them and they believed in them…».

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