Word and Deed

64 hrs. 5 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Valentin Pikul

Narrator Evgeny Ternovsky

Description

The novel consists of two books: "The Queen of Terrible Fear" and "My Dear Confidants." Each book is divided into "chronicles," five "chronicles" in each, plus one more—"The Last Chronicle" in the second book.

Book 1. The Queen of Terrible Fear
The first book covers the events of the brief reign of Peter II, the attempts of the Russian nobility after the death of Peter II to limit the power of the monarchy in the country, the writing of the so-called "conditions"—the requirements that Anna Ioannovna had to follow upon ascending the throne. These "conditions" would greatly restrict the power of the empress. With the help of Osterman, she manages to trick the authors of this project and, after ascending the throne, delivers a cruel punishment to them. The book ends with the rise of Volynsky at court.

Book 2. My Dear Confidants
The second book depicts the events of the failed Turkish campaign of Field Marshal Minich, the Volynsky affair, the death of Anna Ioannovna, the short period of regency of Biron, and the end of the Bironovshchina, the reign of Anna Leopoldovna, and finally the coup carried out by Elizabeth Petrovna.

Contents

00_01 Be Proud of the Glory of One’s Ancestors—Sergey Zhuravlev’s Foreword
00_02
00_03
00_04
FIRST BOOK. "THE QUEEN OF TERRIBLE FEAR"
CHRONICLE ONE. THE EMPRESS’S BRIDE
01_01_01 Chapter 1
01_01_02 Chapter 2
01_01_03 Chapter 3
01_01_04 Chapter 4
01_01_05 Chapter 5
01_01_06 Chapter 6
01_01_07 Chapter 7
01_01_08 Chapter 8
01_01_09 Chapter 9
01_01_10 Chapter 10
01_01_11 Chapter 11
01_01_12 Chapter 12
01_01_13 EPILOGUE
CHRONICLE TWO. THE BOYAR PERIOD
01_02_01 Chapter 1
01_02_02 Chapter 2
01_02_03 Chapter 3
01_02_04 Chapter 4
01_02_05 Chapter 5
01_02_06 Chapter 6
01_02_07 Chapter 7
01_02_08 Chapter 8
01_02_09 Chapter 9
01_02_10 Chapter 10
01_02_11 Chapter 11
01_02_12 Chapter 12
01_02_13 Chapter 13
01_02_14 EPILOGUE
CHRONICLE THREE. "EMPRESS"
01_03_01 Chapter 1
01_03_02 Chapter 2
01_03_03 Chapter 3
01_03_04 Chapter 4
01_03_05 Chapter 5
01_03_06 Chapter 6
01_03_07 Chapter 7
01_03_08 Chapter 8
01_03_09 Chapter 9
01_03_10 Chapter 10
01_03_11 Chapter 11
01_03_12 Chapter 12
01_03_13 EPILOGUE
CHRONICLE FOUR. PROUD ONES AND SCOUNDRELS
01_04_01 Chapter 1
01_04_02 Chapter 2
01_04_03 Chapter 3
01_04_04 Chapter 4
01_04_05 Chapter 5
01_04_06 Chapter 6
01_04_07 Chapter 7
01_04_08 Chapter 8
01_04_09 Chapter 9
01_04_10 Chapter 10
01_04_11 Chapter 11
01_04_12 Chapter 12
01_04_13 Chapter 13
01_04_14 Chapter 14
01_04_15 Chapter 15
01_04_16 EPILOGUE
CHRONICLE FIVE. UNDER THE BATTLE DRUM
01_05_01 Chapter 1
01_05_02 Chapter 2
01_05_03 Chapter 3
01_05_04 Chapter 4
01_05_05 Chapter 5
01_05_06 Chapter 6
01_05_07 Chapter 7
01_05_08 Chapter 8
01_05_09 Chapter 9
01_05_10 Chapter 10
01_05_11 Chapter 11
01_05_12 Chapter 12
01_05_13 EPILOGUE
SECOND BOOK. "MY DEAR CONFIDANTS"
CHRONICLE ONE. AT THE FRONTIERS
02_01_01 Chapter 1
02_01_02 Chapter 2
02_01_03 Chapter 3
02_01_04 Chapter 4
02_01_05 Chapter 5
02_01_06 Chapter 6
02_01_07 Chapter 7
02_01_08 Chapter 8
02_01_09 Chapter 9
02_01_10 Chapter 10
02_01_11 Chapter 11
02_01_12 Chapter 12
02_01_13 Chapter 13
02_01_14 Chapter 14
02_01_15 Chapter 15
02_01_16 Chapter 16
02_01_17 Chapter 17
02_01_18 EPILOGUE
CHRONICLE TWO. BAKHTCHISARAY
02_02_01 Chapter 1
02_02_02 Chapter 2
02_02_03 Chapter 3
02_02_04 Chapter 4
02_02_05 Chapter 5
02_02_06 Chapter 6
02_02_07 Chapter 7
02_02_08 Chapter 8
02_02_09 Chapter 9
02_02_10 Chapter 10
02_02_11 Chapter 11
02_02_12 Chapter 12
02_02_13 Chapter 13
02_02_14 Chapter 14
02_02_15 Chapter 15
02_02_16 EPILOGUE
CHRONICLE THREE. HUMAN AFFAIRS
02_03_01 Chapter 1
02_03_02 Chapter 2
02_03_03 Chapter 3
02_03_04 Chapter 4
02_03_05 Chapter 5
02_03_06 Chapter 6
02_03_07 Chapter 7
02_03_08 Chapter 8
02_03_09 Chapter 9
02_03_10 Chapter 10
02_03_11 Chapter 11
02_03_12 Chapter 12
02_03_13 Chapter 13
02_03_14 Chapter 14
02_03_15 Chapter 15
02_03_16 Chapter 16
02_03_17 EPILOGUE
CHRONICLE FOUR. CONFIDANTS
02_04_01 Chapter 1
02_04_02 Chapter 2
02_04_03 Chapter 3
02_04_04 Chapter 4
02_04_05 Chapter 5
02_04_06 Chapter 6
02_04_07 Chapter 7
02_04_08 Chapter 8
02_04_09 Chapter 9
02_04_10 Chapter 10
02_04_11 Chapter 11
02_04_12 Chapter 12
02_04_13 Chapter 13
02_04_14 Chapter 14
02_04_15 EPILOGUE
CHRONICLE FIVE. SCAFFOLD
02_05_01 Chapter 1
02_05_02 Chapter 2
02_05_03 Chapter 3
02_05_04 Chapter 4
02_05_05 Chapter 5
02_05_06 Chapter 6
02_05_07 Chapter 7
02_05_08 Chapter 8
02_05_09 Chapter 9
02_05_10 Chapter 10
02_05_11 Chapter 11
02_05_12 Chapter 12
02_05_13 Chapter 13
02_05_14 Chapter 14
02_05_15 Chapter 15
02_05_16 Chapter 16
02_05_17 EPILOGUE
CHRONICLE LAST. RUSSIA AT TURNING POINTS
02_06_01 Anna the Bloody
02_06_02 Biron and "Bironovshchina"
02_06_03 A scandal in a noble family
02_06_04 Minich doesn’t sleep
02_06_05 The end of "Bironovshchina"
02_06_06 And Minich was insulted!
02_06_07 Is it really "Linarovshchina"?
02_06_08 Time to choose!
02_06_09 The daughter of Peter
02_06_10 Who ended up how
02_06_11 The Brunswick family
02_06_12 Forward, Russia!
02_06_13 Siberian rogue
02_06_14 Volynsky and autocracy
02_06_15 Confidants of the Decembrists
02_06_16 The ice house and respect for Trediakovsky
02_06_17 The forgotten monument