World reading for schoolchildren is an edition of richly illustrated, sensitively retold and abridged works of world literature. The Captain's Daughter is a historical novel that depicts the end of the 18th century, when Russia was ruled by Empress Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great. In 1773, a Cossack named Yemelyan Pugachev declared that Tsar Peter III had been deposed and rejected the Tsarina's rule. A rebellion broke out that shook the roots of the monarchy. The central motif of the book, depicting the Pugachev Rebellion in Russia in the years 1772-1774, is the love relationship between a nobleman's son and a captain's daughter, whose parents became victims of the rebellion, while the basic conflict here is the contradiction between the humane foundation of a young person and the drastic aspects of serfdom. The author's last major work represents the first poetic and truthful image of Pugačov and his uprising