Звезды над Самаркандом. Хромой Тимур. Костры похода

Pod ego sapogom uzhe lezhit polmira. On tolʹko chto prisoedinil k svoim vladeniiam Indiiu. No velikomu zavoevateliu ne suzhdena spokoĭnaia starostʹ. Ne uspev tolkom otriakhnutʹ dorozhnuiu pylʹ i smytʹ krovʹ s mecha, Timur planiruet novyĭ pokhod. Na ėtot raz na zapad, gde vse gromche zaiavliaet o sebe imperiia Osmanov. Odnako mnogochislennye synovʹia i vnuki povelitelia vse khuzhe skryvaiut svoe neterpenie v ozhidanii smerti Timura, gotoviasʹ nachatʹ skhvatku za vlastʹ. Razve chto mladshiĭ vnuk Ulugbek bolʹshe interesuetsia zvezdami v nebe, chem zemnymi bogatstvami. . . Masshtabnaia istoricheskaia saga Sergeia Borodina o velikom zavoevatele, podchinivshem svoeĭ zheleznoĭ dlani strany ot Indostana do Sredizemnogo moria, stala plodom ne tolʹko glubokogo izucheniia avtorom istorii, byta i nravov ėpokhi, no takzhe iskrenneĭ liubvi k Vostoku i ego bogateĭshemu kulʹturnomu naslediiu. Stremiasʹ k tochnomu i obʺektivnomu otobrazheniiu ėpokhi Timura, pisatelʹ proshel dorogami, po kotorym Zheleznyĭ Khromets vel svoi voĭska. On vyezzhal v Italiiu, Armeniiu, Azerbaĭdzhan, Gruziiu, Afganistan, Iran, Irak, Siriiu, Turtsiiu, Severnuiu Afriku, IUgoslaviiu, rabotal v knigokhranilishchakh Egipta, Turtsii, Tunisa. Nemalo chasov provel v znamenitoĭ biblioteke Vatikana v Rime. Rabota prodolzhalasʹ bolʹshe dvadtsati let, i rezulʹtatom stal tsikl romanov, chetvertyĭ iz kotorykh pisatelʹ ne uspel zavershitʹ. No «Zvezdy nad Samarkandom» iarko zasiiali na literaturnom nebosklone, i eshche nichto ikh ne zatmilo po sile khudozhestvennogo otobrazheniia ėpokhi i vernosti istoricheskim istochnikam. V nastoiashchee izdanie voshli pervye dva romana tsikla: «Khromoĭ Timur» i «Kostry pokhoda».

Half the world already lies under his boot. He has just annexed India to his dominions. But the great conqueror is not destined for a peaceful old age. Before he can really shake off the dust of the road and wash the blood off his sword, Timur plans a new campaign. This time to the west, where the Ottoman Empire is asserting itself more and more loudly. However, the numerous sons and grandsons of the ruler are increasingly hiding their impatience in anticipation of Timur's death, preparing to start a power struggle. Unless the youngest grandson, Ulugbek, is more interested in the stars in the sky than in earthly riches. Sergei Borodin's large-scale historical saga about the great conqueror, who subjugated the countries from Hindustan to the Mediterranean Sea with his iron hand, was the fruit of not only the author's in-depth study of the history, way of life and customs of the era, but also a sincere love for the East and its rich cultural heritage. Striving for an accurate and objective representation of Timur's era, the writer walked the roads along which the Iron Man led his troops. He traveled to Italy, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, North Africa, Yugoslavia, and worked in book depositories in Egypt, Turkey, and Tunisia. I spent many hours in the famous Vatican Library in Rome. The work lasted for more than twenty years, and the result was a series of novels, the fourth of which the writer did not have time to complete. But the "Stars over Samarkand" shone brightly in the literary firmament, and nothing has yet eclipsed them in terms of the power of artistic representation of the era and fidelity to historical sources. This edition includes the first two novels of the cycle.: "Lame Timur" and "Campfires".