About the book: 2016 / The novel by writer Yuri Nikolaevich Lubchenkov (b. 1960) opens one of the brightest pages of Russian history - the creation in the second half of the 18th century of New Russia on those lands that they were once part of the Old Russian state. Great credit for this belongs to one of the main characters of the novel - Field Marshal Pyotr Aleksandrovich Rumyantsev, under whose leadership the Russian army defeated the many times superior forces of the Ottoman Porte and the Crimean Khanate. It fell to him to become the first in a series of commanders to return her southern territories to Russia.