Grigoriy Demidovtsev (Russian: Григорий Демидовцев) is the

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of Grigoriy Anatolyevich Petrov (Russian: Григорий Анатольевич Петров) (born 1960), a

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writer and a

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. Since 2001 he publishes Biznes Segodnya. In 2014 he was awarded the A. K. Tolstoy Literary Prize.

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 to be collected in ''Fantastic stories''.

Nevoruss

In the ''Breath of the Past'' and ''Russ we hadn't known about'', Demidovtsev depicts a fictional European country named Nevoruss. "Nevoruss" is the

word for "Neva Russ", literally "Russ at the

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". Nevoruss is considered to be a successor state of the medieval

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. It managed to avoid Muscovite conquest in the 15th century and due to commercial activity of its inhabitants continued to thrive. Thus Russia had never united, so its place shares Nevoruss and

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. Their opposition resembles that of Jesusland and the United States of Canada. Besides Russian territories Nevoruss due to its early colonial expansion also controlled the

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with

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and

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, some parts of

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(including

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and the whole Canada) as well as some important islands (among them

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, Canaries and

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References

External links

Grigoriy Demidovtsev at demidovtsev.ru
{{DEFAULTSORT:Demidovtsev, Grigoriy Russian male novelists Russian science fiction writers Russian dramatists and playwrights Russian male dramatists and playwrights Living people 1960 births