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ЧАСТЬ АЗИИ. ИСТОРИЯ РОССИЙСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВА. ОРДЫНСКИЙ ПЕРИОД

Bibliographic Description

Часть Азии. История Российского государства. Ордынский период / Акунин, Борис. – М. : АСТ, 2014. – (История Российского государства). – ISBN 978-5-17-082524-0.

Author
Акунин, Борис
Publisher
АСТ
Year of publication
2014
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

The second volume of "The History of the Russian State: The Horde Period" covers the period from 1223 to 1462. "In the biography of every country there are beautiful chapters that flatter national pride, and ugly ones that one wants to forget or turn into myth. The era of Mongol domination in Russian history is the most unsightly. It is a heavy trauma of historical memory: times of humiliation, disintegration, and the loss of one's own statehood. Writing and reading about the events of the 13th-15th centuries is, at first, a rather depressing undertaking. But gradually the mood changes. The process of the healing of wounds, of rebirth, stirs and fascinates. There is something of a Russian fairy tale in it: Rus was sprinkled with the water of death, and then with the water of life - and it was resurrected, and became stronger than before. The Tatar-Mongol conquest brought much misfortune and suffering, but at the same time it demonstrated the viability of a country that withstood a terrible trial and managed to create a new statehood in place of the one that had perished."

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