Potemkin on the Danube. 1790

Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky (1829–1890) — a Russian and Ukrainian writer and publicist, author of novels from the history of Russia and Ukraine in the 18th–19th centuries.
Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin is one of the most striking representatives of the Catherine era— the hero of this historical-adventure novel “Potemkin on the Danube.” The author conveys with subtlety and detail the features of that time. The plot is full of unexpected turns and dramatic events.

In one of the cities of Bessarabia, last year it was necessary to allocate part of a stone building for a military warehouse, crammed with paperwork from some—now completely forgotten—quartermaster commission. While moving papers in the archive attic, among all sorts of junk, they noticed an old-fashioned, armless wardrobe. Inside were some of the half-rotted supplies records of the famous F anagorian infantry regiment of Suvorov—along with a bundle of notebooks made of bluish, thick, finely written paper with a heading: “In Memory of the Russian Agamemnon.” On the side of one of the pages there is a note: “About my, full of worries and noteworthy meetings and events, unforgettable stay on the Danube I wrote for my children and grandchildren, Second-Major Savvaty Bekhteyev.”
In the found manuscript, only a few completely outdated words were replaced—now even a few are barely understandable—and the story is divided into chapters.