Prosper Merimée
Varfolomeevskaya noch'
Unabridged
8 hours 51 minutes
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V noch' na 24 avgusta 1572 goda po blagosloveniyu papy Grigoriya HIII v Parizhe proizoshlo massovoe ubijstvo kal'vinistov (gugenotov) katolikami. Den' 24 avgusta u katolikov posvyashchen pamyati svyatogo Varfolomeya. Poetomu etu noch' stali nazyvat' Varfolomeevskoj noch'yu. V techenie neskol'kih chasov v Parizhe bylo ubito bolee dvuh tysyach chelovek. Reznya prodolzhalas' v masshtabah vsej Francii dve nedeli. Vsego pogiblo okolo 30 tysyach kal'vinistov. V romane Hronika vremyon Karla IX (1829) opisany tragicheskie sobytiya toj nochi. V centre istoricheskogo polotna yunyj dvoryanin-gugenot Bernar de Merzhi, vlyublennyj v pridvornuyu damu Dianu de Tyurzhi. Pisatel' sozdaet celuyu galereyu yarkih politicheskih figur toj epohi, opisyvaet nravy pridvornyh i sluzhitelej Cerkvi, soldat i prostolyudinov.
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