Grigoriy Demidovtsev
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Pen name
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of Grigoriy Anatolyevich Petrov (Russian: Григорий Анатольевич Петров) (born 1960), a Russian
Russians
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fiction
Fiction
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writer and a playwright
Playwright
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. Since 2001 he publishes Biznes Segodnya
Biznes Segodnya
Biznes Segodnya is a full-color monthly Russian language business magazine published by Grigoriy Demidovtsev. Based in Saint Petersburg, it is primarily focused on local business issues, local and international legislation and cultural events...
.
Books
Demidovtsev wrote eight books of novels and a collection of stageplays:- Breath of the Future
- Breath of the Past
- Russ we hadn't known about
- Breath of the Eternity
- The Little Bow
- The Demon of Temptation
- The Black Angel. In a Boat of Death
- Russian Mystery
- Plays
Some of them were translated into English
English language
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to be collected in the Fantastic stories.
Nevoruss
In the Breath of the Past and the Russ we hadn't known about Demidovtsev depicts a fictional EuropeEurope
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an country Nevoruss
Nevoruss
Nevoruss is a fictional European country created by Russian writer Grigoriy Demidovtsev as the location for his series of seven novels. "Nevoruss " is the Russian word for "Neva Russ," literally “Russ at the Neva river”. Nevoruss is considered to be a successor state of the Novgorod Republic...
. "Nevoruss " is the Russian
Russian language
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word for "Neva Russ," literally “Russ at the Neva river
Neva River
The Neva is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length , it is the third largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge .The Neva is the only river flowing from Lake...
”. Nevoruss is considered to be a successor state of the medieval Novgorod Republic
Novgorod Republic
The Novgorod Republic was a large medieval Russian state which stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Ural Mountains between the 12th and 15th centuries, centred on the city of Novgorod...
. It managed to avoid Muscovite conquest in the 15th century and due to commercial activity of its inhabitants continued to thrive.