Emelyan Pugachev in 3 volumes - Shishkov V.Ya

Yemelyan Pugachev in 3 volumes - Shishkov V.Ya., 1956-57, Moscow, “Khudozhestvennaya Literatura”, hardcover, pp.: 704 + 759 + 575, format: 135 x 202 mm, total weight: 1854 g, circulation: 150,000 copies. Condition: close to excellent. The covers of the set were replaced in a professional workshop, because they had several irremovable stains.

Russian Soviet writer Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov (1873-1945) belongs to the galaxy of outstanding masters of artistic words. The novel “Yemelyan Pugachev” is his most significant creation. Based on documentary facts of historical reality and a rich stock of his own knowledge of people's life, the author has reproduced pictures of the greatest popular movement of the 18th century in an exceptionally vivid manner. The book truthfully recreates real historical heroes and events, and deeply artistically draws numerous images of two social worlds during their terrible, merciless and bloody clash.

This edition costs 4,617 tenge on local second-hand bookstores.