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Suite romanesque: La Lumière des Justes #3
مجد المهزومين
in8. Broché.
- GenresHistorical FictionNovels
445 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1961
About the author
Henri Troyat
533 books272 followersTroyat was a French author, biographer, historian and novelist.
Troyat was born Levon Aslan Torossian in Moscow to parents of Armenian descent. His family fled Russia in anticipation of the revolution. After a long exodus taking them to the Caucasus on to Crimea and later by sea to Constantinople and then Venice, the family finally settled in Paris in 1920, where young Troyat was schooled and later earned a law degree. The stirring and tragic events of this flight across half of Europe are vividly recounted by Troyat in 'Tant que la terre durera'.
Troyat received his first literary award, Le prix du roman populaire, at the age of twenty-four, and by twenty-seven, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt.
Troyat published more than 100 books, novels and biographies, among them those of Anton Chekhov, Catherine the Great, Rasputin, Ivan the Terrible and Leo Tolstoy.
Troyat's best-known work is La neige en deuil, which was adapted as an English-language film in 1956 under the title The Mountain.
He was elected as a member of the Académie française in 1959. At the time of his death, Troyat was the longest serving member of the Academy.
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Troyat was born Levon Aslan Torossian in Moscow to parents of Armenian descent. His family fled Russia in anticipation of the revolution. After a long exodus taking them to the Caucasus on to Crimea and later by sea to Constantinople and then Venice, the family finally settled in Paris in 1920, where young Troyat was schooled and later earned a law degree. The stirring and tragic events of this flight across half of Europe are vividly recounted by Troyat in 'Tant que la terre durera'.
Troyat received his first literary award, Le prix du roman populaire, at the age of twenty-four, and by twenty-seven, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt.
Troyat published more than 100 books, novels and biographies, among them those of Anton Chekhov, Catherine the Great, Rasputin, Ivan the Terrible and Leo Tolstoy.
Troyat's best-known work is La neige en deuil, which was adapted as an English-language film in 1956 under the title The Mountain.
He was elected as a member of the Académie française in 1959. At the time of his death, Troyat was the longest serving member of the Academy.
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October 21, 2025
Terzo libro del ciclo di romanzi “Il Lume dei Giusti” scritti da Henri Troyat all’inizio degli anni sessanta del novecento, racconta come le discussioni tra amici e vecchi compagni d’arme delle guerre napoleoniche portino a un movimento politico/militare, detto poi dei decabristi che, approfittando della morte dello Zar Alessandro I, insorgono contro Nicola I, appena divenuto zar, chiedendo aperture democratiche e liberazione dei servi della gleba: l’immediata repressione zarista ha come esito la prigione prima e, dopo il processo a porte chiuse, la condanna e la deportazione in Siberia degli ufficiale e degli intellettuali coinvolti nei disordini di piazza. Qui il protagonista del romanzo, Nicola Ozarev, verrà poi raggiunto dalla moglie che condividerà con lui la difficile vita dei deportati in quelle gelide e inospitali regioni nella speranza di un condono. Romanzo storico ben scritto come i precedenti capitoli e di piacevolissima oltre che istruttiva lettura su un periodo difficile della Russia, all’indomani della sconfitta della Francia napoleonica che seminò dappertutto il seme della libertà dei popoli, e che racconta le vicissitudini personali, familiari, nazionali del popolo russo e della sua intellighenzia qui rese con grande maestria descrittiva da questo scrittore russo naturalizzato francese.
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