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S povesti «Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod» (1967) nachalas' pisatel'skaya kar'era filologa-rusista, fol'klorista i istorika Dmitriya Balashova — avtora znamenitogo cikla istoricheskih romanov «Gosudari Moskovskie». Pervyy literaturnyy opyt uchenogo prolozhil dorogu bolee masshtabnomu proizvedeniyu — romanu «Marfa-posadnica» (1972), takzhe posvyashchennomu dramaticheskim epizodam istorii Novgorodskoy respubliki. Pervym zhe literaturnym sochineniyam Dmitriya Balashova prisushchi harakternye cherty ego zrelogo tvorcheskogo stilya: i povest', i posledovavshiy za ney roman chrezvychayno ubeditel'no i dostoverno izobrazhali zhizn' novgorodskogo obshchestva tekh dalekih vekov, bytovoy i duhovnyy uklad zhizni. Naseliv drevnyuyu respubliku vyrazitel'nymi personazhami, chastichno istoricheskimi, chastichno vymyshlennymi, Balashov prevratil ne tol'ko rech' svoih geroev, no i avtorskiy tekst v masterskuyu stilizaciyu yazyka drevnerusskih literaturnyh pamyatnikov. Deystvie romana «Marfa-posadnica» perenosit chitatelya v 1471–1478 gody, v gushchu konflikta mezhdu Novgorodskoy respublikoy i Velikim knyazhestvom Moskovskim, zakonchivshegosya gibel'yu vechevogo stroya...