Ten' Mazepy. Ukrainskaya naciya v epohu Gogolya

Sergey Belyakov - istorik, literaturoved, avtor biografii-bestsellera "Gumilev syn Gumileva" (premiya "BOL'ShAYa KNIGA"). Soedinyaya dotoshnost' istorika s talantom rasskazchika, v novoy knige "Ten' Mazepy" on sovershaet, kazalos' by, nevozmozhnoe: fundamental'noe issledovanie, osnovannoe na mnozhestve istochnikov, okazyvaetsya uvlekatel'nee romana. Zdes' getmany vershat sud'by Voyska Zaporozhskogo i slyshna kozackaya rech', zdes' ozhivaet v yarkih zapahah, zvukah, kraskah volshebnyy mir malorossiyskoy derevni, zdes' biografii velikih pisateley i poetov - dazhe Shevchenko i Gogolya - lish' chast' obschey biografii i sud'by… Zdes' rozhdaetsya naciya.