A. K. Tolstoy was above all poet; but he also wrote a historical novel from the time of Ivan The Terrible, Prince Serebryani, which had a great success, partly because in it for the first time censorship had permitted fiction to deal with the half-mad Tsar who played the part of Louis XI. of the Russian Monarchy, but especially on account of its qualities as a historical novel.
Language
English
Pages
460
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University Press of the Pacific
Release
March 20, 2001
ISBN
0898752795
ISBN 13
9780898752793
Prince Serebryani: An Historical Novel of the Times of Ivan the Terrible and of the Conquest of Siberia
A. K. Tolstoy was above all poet; but he also wrote a historical novel from the time of Ivan The Terrible, Prince Serebryani, which had a great success, partly because in it for the first time censorship had permitted fiction to deal with the half-mad Tsar who played the part of Louis XI. of the Russian Monarchy, but especially on account of its qualities as a historical novel.