Denis Dragunsky is a prose writer, journalist, and famous blogger. Author of the novels “The Architect and the Monk”, “A Matter of Principle” and many short stories. “Self-Portrait of an Unknown” is a new novel by Denis Dragunsky. Once upon a time, an academician lived in a huge apartment in Stalin’s house, then an artist, then a minister, then his son, a scientist, the head of a secret laboratory. Now this apartment has been bought by a major financier. His young wife, a woman with ambitions, decided to write a novel about all these people. In the interweaving of destinies and events, mysterious stories unfold about creativity and espionage, about betrayal and illegitimate children, about disappearances and returns, and about the power of artistic fiction, which sometimes defeats reality.