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“Poetry will always remain poetry and many pages of your novel will live on until the Russian language is forgotten,” wrote A. S. Pushkin in a letter to Lazhechnikov in 1835.

Was the Russian poet wrong? Or better, is our native Russian, the greatest language in terms of richness of images, originality, and expressiveness, still alive? Vsevolodova's books are an attempt to affirmatively: Russia, its language, its heroes, its soul are immortal.

The novel tells about the remarkable personality of the Russian minister A.P. Volynsky, who was far ahead of his time and paid for it with his head.

Some of his state projects were implemented by such well-known domestic educators as Lomonosov and Shuvalov, others - Stolypin tried to implement, many - have not found their executor to this day.

In the days of the greatest national trials, at a new historical crossroads, the name of Volynsky, "the first Russian zemstvo", as the Minister Polezhaev aptly called in the book "Volynsky and Biron. 150 years ago. A historical novel from the time of Anna Ioannovna" has always attracted the Russian public.

It is no coincidence that a book about him appeared even now.

The author tried to give his works the form and genre characteristic of the works of the 18th century.