Boyarynya Morozova

Obraz boyaryni Feodosii Prokop'evny Morozovoy - surovoy oblichitel'nicy novyh obryadov, vvedennyh v Russkoy cerkvi v seredine XVII stoletiya patriarhom Nikonom i carem Alekseem Mihaylovichem, - znakom nam prezhde vsego blagodarya kartine hudozhnika Vasiliya Ivanovicha Surikova, zapechatlevshego perelomnyy moment v ee zhizni, kogda ee, bogateyshuyu i znatneyshuyu zhenschinu Rossii, vezut na sanyah, zakovannoy v kandaly, k mestu buduschih mucheniy i pytok. No kem byla eta zhenschina? Pochemu radi svoih ubezhdeniy, radi priverzhennosti staroy vere ona ne poboyalas' lishit'sya vseh prichitavshihsya ey blag, da i samoy zhizni? Pochemu dazhe pod strahom smerti ona ne soglasilas' - hotya by dlya vida - perekrestit'sya na novyy lad, to est' tremya perstami, i proiznesti po-novomu Simvol very? I tol'ko li religioznyy fanatizm byl prichinoy ee nepreklonnosti? Na eti voprosy daet svoy otvet avtor knigi, izvestnyy peterburgskiy istorik i publicist Kirill Yakovlevich Kozhurin. Osobyy interes knige pridaet to obstoyatel'stvo, chto v ney predstavlen imenno staroobryadcheskiy vzglyad i na biografiyu boyaryni Morozovoy, i na vsyu russkuyu istoriyu XVII veka.