Novgorod Freedom

8 hrs. 27 min.

Language Russian

Author Nikolai Geintse

Narrator Ekaterina Russova

Description

The name of Nikolai Geintse is that of a prominent Russian writer of the mid-previous century, the author of a number of historical novels about Russia’s history—yet he is little known to the domestic reader. What sets him apart from many contemporary and later authors writing on the same subject is his profound penetration into the essence of the events described, active use of documentary sources (many of which have been irretrievably lost today), and an active humanistic and Orthodox idea. The story about “The Lord Great Novgorod” brings before us events of the 15th–16th centuries, when the young Russian autocracy fought the Novgorod “freeholders” who resisted the establishment of absolute monarchy in Rus’.