Written in History. Letters that Changed the World

A book about people, their fates, and the letters in which these fates found reflection. The author undertakes a journey through countries and eras to tell about personalities who left their mark in history, literature, and art—from the Apostle Paul to Ivan the Terrible, from Pliny the Younger to Byron, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Maupassant, from Alexander Suvorov to Ivan Shmelev.
The book presents little-known details of the biographies of outstanding people, collecting their letters. The selection is very personal and subjective, but many of these letters turned out to be integral to history, and some even influenced it. In every letter—be it personal, friendly, or business—life pulses. In them are love, friendship, passion, disappointment, anger, peace, tears, pain, tremor, and joy. They contain thoughts that captivated those who held the pen. Behind each letter stands the personality of the sender and the recipient.
The author believes: letters are interesting, and they are worth writing even now. Even handwritten ones, because they carry warmth. A dried flower cannot be inserted into an email.