Love heresy

Book M. Gordin "Love of heresy. From the life of Russian knights" tells the story of Russian peers Napoleon, committed radical revolution of the spiritual life of the country.

He appeared on the historical scene at the end of the XVIII century noble generation coined unprecedented knightly style behavior. Russian knights, claiming to be the Supreme spiritual value inner world of the individual, however, insist on its commitment to secular prejudices. They prefer autocracy representative to the Board, do not demand political freedoms, uphold the noble liberties the Constitution and instead create the noble code of honor, which will be guided by the following (all with different) of the Decembrists, Pushkin's generation. They become heroes of the Napoleonic wars, the saviors of the Fatherland, and, like the vilest of heretics, subvert the traditional piety and morality.

After two centuries, the fate of the Russian knights, the people at the epoch, able to maintain its identity and become a full-fledged Europeans, are important and instructive for the present, is also a transition, a time when the Russian public consciousness joined the band of another radical change.

The book contains about eighty illustrations and is intended for a wide circle of readers.