Pop Gapon and Japanese rifles: 15 amazing stories from pre-revolutionary Russia

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This book contains the stories of people who lived in the Russian Empire at the beginning of the XNUMXth century: poets, bankers, femme fatales, hoaxers, politicians, film producers. Some of the heroes are famous, some are forgotten, but even celebrities don't look bronzed here. Leo Tolstoy quarrels with his wife over money, and the first paparazzi stealthily takes him off. Futurist poets go on tour around the country, perform in small clubs, arrange street performances and gladly give rise to yellow headlines in the newspapers. Andrey Aksyonov, teacher, popularizer of history, author of the Decline of the Empire podcast, in his book tells fascinating stories about people, events and phenomena of that period in our country, when everything was changing before our eyes and no one could predict how everything would end in a few years.

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Barcode: 9785961480078 SKU: 70170888 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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