Tolstoy - Князь Серебряный "Prince Serebrenni" - 1945

Князь Серебряный "Prince Serebrenni" by A.K. Tolstoy - Paris, 1945 first thus Russian edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: good, in original publisher's wrappers, with minor wear to edges, in protective mylar cover Prince Serebrenni (Russian: Князь Серебряный) is a historical novel by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, written in 1859–1861 and first published in The Russian Messenger magazine in 1862 (Nos. 8-10, August–October issues) where it was divided into parts I (chapters 1-19, in No. 8) and II (chapters 20-40, Nos. 9 and 10).[1] Translated by Princess Galitzine for Chapmann & Hall, it came out in English in 1874.[2] Prince Serebrenni (also known as The Silver Knight, according to the alternative translation), a novel about 16th-century Russia, inspired by the works of Sir Walter Scott and the German Romantics,[3] has become a popular young adult novel in Russia. Acknowledging its limits as a historical document, critics invariably praised the way it "imbued the readership with the ideas of justice, honesty, nobleness and human dignity."[4]

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