Boris Akunin’s extremely popular project “Genres” is an attempt to create a kind of insectarium of genre literature, each of the motley types and subspecies of which will be represented by one “classic” copy.

The third book of the project was perhaps the most unexpected and unpredictable. Akunin’s new novel “Fantastic” again proves the author’s ability, by shifting the angle of view, to come up with a fascinating, moderately plausible interpretation of an event known to everyone. This time it was August 1991 - now everyone will know why the hands of the harsh putschists were shaking and who Boris Yeltsin really was.