Yuri Miloslavsky, or Russians in 1612

Mikhail Nikolaevich Zagoskin (1789–1852) was a Russian writer, a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and director of Moscow theaters and later the Armory Chamber. He made his literary debut with the comedy "The Prankster" (1815), but it was his novel "Yuri Miloslavsky, or The Russians in 1612" (1829) that brought him true fame. The work enjoyed extraordinary success among his contemporaries: A.S...