The next book in Alexander Zvyagintsev’s personal series contains amazing stories dedicated to various episodes of our wonderful past. Court intrigues from the time of Catherine the Great, behind the scenes of the last decades of the reign of the House of Romanov, the exploits of Soviet intelligence officers and, of course, disputes around the main catastrophe of the 20th century - the crimes of the Third Reich - and the results of the Nuremberg trials. Focusing on these historical events, the author convincingly and clearly shows their significance and unobtrusively explains why today it is necessary to remember them...