The library of the project “History of the Russian State” is the best monuments of world literature recommended by Boris Akunin, which reflect the biography of our country from its very origins.S.M. Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (1851–1895) was one of the most controversial people in the Russian revolutionary movement, in Russian literature, and in the social movement of the 19th century. He was the first to translate R. Giovagnoli’s novel “Spartacus” into Russian back in 1881, served as the prototype for the main character of the famous novel by E. Voynich “The Gadfly”, became the hero of E. Zola’s novel “Germinal”, and was a participant in the assassination of General N. in 1878. IN. Mezentsev - the chief of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes. The action of the novel "Andrei Kozhukhov" - the most significant work of the writer who, based on his own experience, recreated a true picture of the revolutionary struggle - refers to that turning point in history when the populists, having not found a response to their propaganda among the peasantry, in search of new methods of revolutionary activity have embarked on the path of political terror.