The confrontation between the British and Russian empires, the Great Game, as it is called in literature, is still shrouded in mystery. Many years have passed, but even now many of the most important documents of that era remain classified as “secret”. What inconvenient truth do old folders in English archives contain? Secret operations in the Caucasus, the subversive work of dissidents of the 19th century, England's plans to dismember Russia, the US attempt to seize the Russian Far East, little-known pages of the Crimean War, the real reasons for Russia's defeats in the Russo-Japanese War, the origins of the First World War - these are the topics of the new book by Dmitry Zykin, author of the bestseller “How the great history of our country was slandered.”