Юрий Милославский, или Русские в 1612

The novel is set in the XVII century, in the years that went into the history of Russia as one of the brightest pages of the struggle for independence. Fictional incident novel "without violence", according to Pushkin, are "in the frame of the widest historical accident." A prominent place in the novel devoted to events such as the organization of the Nizhny Novgorod militia led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, the liberation of Moscow from invaders in 1612, and others.