Dmitriy Donskoy. Spasti mir

Perhaps, no milestone in the Russian history of the pre-Petrine era attracts such close attention of historians and people simply interested in history as the eighth of September 1380. Numerous tales that invariably accompanied the facts excited the imagination of artists and writers. On that Friday, when the Russian people usually celebrate the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God, a thick morning mist hid from view the sun rising above the place where Nepryadva flows into the great river Don. more