“He was a specialist in a terrible profession. His profession was to walk over corpses, and as successfully as possible” (Dmitry Shostakovich about Mikhail Tukhachevsky). More about him: “the creator of the Soviet military doctrine”, “the executioner of the peasantry”, “the red Napoleon”, “the irresistible Don Juan”... The book of the leading researcher of the State Hermitage Yulia Kantor “War and Peace of Mikhail Tukhachevsky” was written on the basis of previously unknown historical materials discovered by the author as a result of archival research in Russia and Germany. Judging by these documents, there is no reason to consider Tukhachevsky an “anti-Stalinist resistance fighter.” Would he become one over time? History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood...