Загадки истории

by Edvard Radzinsky, Эдвард Радзинский

Besedi s Sokratom.
Teatr vremen Nerona i Seneki.
Ioann muchitel.
Taina Ioannova sina.
...and many more historical novels in one book.
Text in Russian.
1039 pages.

Genres: Russia

560 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Radzinsky (Russian: Эдвард Радзинский) is an author of more than forty popular non-fiction books on historical subjects. Since the 1990s, he has written the series Mysteries of History. The books translated to English include his biographies of Tsars Nicholas II and Alexander II, Rasputin, and Joseph Stalin. His book Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives discusses a number of well known controversies about Joseph Stalin, including the existence of a fuller text of Lenin's Testament, the alleged involvement of Stalin as an agent of the Tsarist secret police, and the role of Stalin in the death of his wife and the murder of Sergey Kirov. According to Radzinsky, Stalin was poisoned by order of Lavrentiy Beria. His book includes an interview with a former bodyguard of Stalin, who stated that on the night of Stalin's death, the bodyguards were relieved of duty by an NKVD officer named Khrustalev. This same officer was briefly mentioned in Memories, the memoir of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. Radzinsky also supported the hypotesis by Viktor Suvorov that Stalin had prepared a preemptive strike against Nazi Germany

Reviews

[AURORA RU]

1040 lpp.
Беседы с Сократом
Театр времени Нерона и Сенеки
Иоанн Мучитель
Тайна Иоаннова сына
Последняя из дома Романовых
Любовные сумасбродства Джакомо Казановы
Несколько встреч с покойным господином Моцартом
Прогулки с палачом
Игры писателей
Наполеон: жизнь после смерти
Лунин, или смерть Жака
"На Руси от ума одно горе"
Последняя ночь последнего царя
О любви к математике
Коба

[Margarita · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am fairly certain I read a different edition - mine contained the stories of Princess Tarakanova, the poet Chaadaev and Radzinsky's classic play "Lunin, or the death of Jacques." Radzinsky's style is very solid and old-fashioned, and I totally loved the book for that. The historical details are interesting and keep the reader's attention, while his take on the issues of power and patriotism are current and would give any reader of Russian lit something to think about.

[Andrey Gavrilin · Rating 4 out of 5]

well, all stories are very different and I'm surprised that they were compiled in one book