“Novgorod Freemen” is a novel by Russian prose writer, journalist and playwright Nikolai Eduardovich Heinze (1852–1913). This novel most clearly shows the events taking place in Russia in the 15th–16th centuries, when the nascent autocracy embarked on the path of struggle against the Novgorod freemen, an association that was doing its best to prevent the establishment of an absolutist regime in the Russian state... The “Russian Historical Novel” series includes works by such Russian writers such as E. Salias, N. Breshko-Breshkovsky, V. Bryusov, G. Danilevsky, I. Goncharov, I. Lukash, A. Veltman, M. Zagoskin, V. Aristov, A. S. Pushkin, N. V. Gogol, and many others.