Mednyi vsadnik. Zhiznennyi put' Et'ena Fal'kone - Topalova Elizaveta

The book tells the story of the famous sculptor Etienne Maurice Falcone, who created a masterpiece monument to Peter T in St. Petersburg. In the pages of the novel readers are waiting for meetings with outstanding personalities of the enlightenment, among them: Voltaire and Montesquieu, Empress Catherine II and Denis Diderot, Adam Smith and Benjamin Franklin, Kene and Thurgo ... All of them talk about the eternal issues of power and being.
At the center of the narrative is Falcone's fate, refracted through the comprehension of the Christian idea and the understanding that the fate of man is the result of his awareness of the moral path. At the same time, the author, leading the narrative on behalf of the character Louis, along with other heroes of the book makes it clear that the great enlightened rulers like Peter I - a gift of fate, which is not accidental ...
The book is dedicated to the wonderful sculptor N.A. Scherbakov, whose surprising resemblance - both external and internal - with the famous E.M. Falcone inspired the author to write this book.