Триллер в век мушкетеров. Железная Маска.

by Edvard Radzinsky, Эдвард Радзинский

Это был век, когда во Францию пришли деньги. Когда храбрость и верность начинают уступать богатству. Первые олигархи в истории – это кардинал и министр финансов Фуке, который так и не понял, что такое власть короля. Это был век куртизанок, когда понятие добродетели начинает исчезать. Век салонов, где правили женщины, и век до сих пор не раскрытых тайн. Одна из которых – тайна Железной Маски… Ответ на историческую загадку будет совершенно неожиданным.

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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

[Juliana Veale · Rating 4 out of 5]

An entertaining fiction. Whilst a lot of historical figures and events are mentioned, the author skillfully weaves truth and fiction together. Perhaps that reflects my changing taste, but the mysterious narrator of events who is heavily implied to be an immortal version of the Count of St-Germaine feels heavy handed and unnecessary.