يتحدث كتاب مارك كاسفينوف عن حياة وفظائع القيصر وبطانته المقربة، وعن النهاية المخزية لنيقولاي الدموي الذي حاول ويحاول مزوروا التاريخ البرجوازيون تصويره كضحية بريئة. ويرد المؤلف ردا لائقا على هذه الافتراءات.
Mark Konstantinovich Kasvinov (1910, Elizavetgrad, Kherson province - January 30, 1974) - Soviet journalist, historian, famous for the number of steps he counted in the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg.
Jewish by birth.
Graduated from the history department of the Zinoviev Pedagogical Institute.
Since 1933 - a correspondent, head of the foreign policy department of the Uchitelskaya Gazeta. He was published in central newspapers, prepared materials for the radio.
In 1941-1945 - at the front. In 1945-1947 he served in Germany and Austria. He edited the newspaper of the Soviet occupation forces "Osterreichishe Zeitung" in Vienna. From 1947 he worked in radio, in the broadcasting department for German-speaking countries.
In 1972-1974 (with a long break) he published his book "Twenty-Three Steps Down" (massively published in 1989) in the Leningrad magazine "Zvezda", for which he had been collecting materials since the 1960s.
In 1972, 1974 and 1975 he met with VV Shulgin (according to other sources, in 1973-1975 [3]). True, the last date in any case contradicts the above date of death.