One of them is Andrei Karpenko.Īs the village of Russka develops over the years, an industrious serf, named Ivan Suvorin, begins a cloth business in the nineteenth century. The Cossacks are instrumental in the fight against the Tatars. Boris Bobrov, a young landowner, is a strong supporter of the tsar. Tsar Ivan is fighting to throw out the Tatars, but the Tatars have a working relationship with the landowners and merchants, which make this a difficult task. She is the ancestor of the Ivanovs.īy the middle of the sixteenth century, Moscow has become a strong city with a tsar that has conquered other cities. The peasant woman Yanka flees from the Tatars. This is how the Mongols or Tatars are able to conquer the country in these years in the thirteenth century. The fact that there is no one strong central authority makes the country of Ru's susceptible to takeover from the outside. The result is a great deal of instability. Their structure of government is based on succession passing from brother to brother and not from father to son. These people become the leaders of Kiev and other cities. There are different tribes, with the Alans being the greatest of the warriors. The book begins in primitive times with a small group of families living in huts. Most of the main characters, such as the Bobrovs, Suvorins, Karpenkos and Romanovs trace their roots to the small village, even though they move around the country. The focal point of the book is the small village of Russka, located in the Russian heartland, from its beginnings until modern times. He includes the story of the history of the people and the country along with the politics and culture. Russka, by Edward Rutherford, is the story of eighteen hundred years of Russian history.
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