In her new book, the writer, journalist and historian Elena Syanova, as before (the Vremya publishing house published “Ten from Hitler’s Deck” and “Hitler_Directory”), continues to carefully peer into the depths of centuries and decades. The destinies and events she writes about might seem insignificant against the backdrop of the great heroes and great villains of past eras - Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler... But these “little tragedies” have one amazing property - each of them, like a magnifying glass, brings closer different times come to us, fills them with living blood and living meaning.