Together with the previous works of Robert Harris - “Fatherland” and “Enigma” - “Archangel” forms a kind of genre trilogy of fascinating detective novels with brilliant intrigue, masterfully inscribed in historical settings, revealing and explaining the secrets of history in its own way. In “ Archangel”, the mystery of Stalin’s disappeared diary and the search for it, which lasted until recently, give impetus to a tense and tragic duel of opposing forces, each of which has its own ideas about the past and present of Russia. For all lovers of modern fiction.