Svetlana Savitskaya - Reflecting Light (in 2 volumes). Gift books bound in leather.

"Reflecting Light"

Novel by Svetlana Savitskaya "Reflecting Light" is a modern fundamental historical work, created for 5 years, based on original documents, archives, letters and logbooks of warships of the Russian Navy, the First and Second Kamchatka expeditions, most of which are published for the first time.

The author introduces readers to the origins of the spiritual, economic and military power of the Russian state, tells about people who gave all their strength, talents, health and even life in the name of the formation, development and prosperity of great Russia. The fate of the main character Alexey Ilyich Chirikov, captain commander, one of the great first Russian navigators, participant of Kamchatka expeditions led by V. Bering, who passed by sea from the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean and to the shores of America, is traced through the whole novel. His life full of amazing adventures, the greatest discoveries, exploits and, of course, love will not leave anyone indifferent who appreciates his story.

The novel begins against the backdrop of Peter the Great's titanic efforts to liberate the native Russian territories and acquire access to the Baltic and Black Seas, gathering a great empire in the west, south and east. His struggle with the archaic and economic backwardness of the country. The origins of his education, dedication, and devotion to his homeland are revealed. The internal political atmosphere in which Peter carried out military, educational, economic, political and other reforms is shown. It describes the role of Peter's closest relatives, associates and followers, the fate of the monarch's beloved women, his struggle with enemies, traitors and embezzlers.

The inquisitive reader will get extremely informative and versatile information for himself: he will touch the secrets of the city of Nyena, on the foundation of which the city of St. Petersburg grew up, get acquainted with the many thousand-year-old antiquities of Moscow, methods of obtaining knowledge from the Magi, the first Neptune society in the Sukharev Tower, the studies of Ivan the Terrible, Lefort, Bruce, Newton and Leibniz, the fates of Lomonosov, Steller, Mesershmidt, Krasheninnikov. He will travel with the discoverers through Siberia, Baikal, the Far East and Kamchatka. He will make his own discoveries in the German cities of Eksterstein and Marburg. He will love Bering through the eyes of his wife Anna Pulse. He will admire the Steller with the soul of Brigitte until the last breath. He will be able to feel how the commander's heart stops on a distant island. And when it stops beating, wash this island with grateful tears.

But the main thing is to sincerely love Alexey Chirikov and accept his most beautiful life and the highest death as his own reward... more precisely, immortality.