100 Great Dramas and Tragedies of History

It has so happened that the entire history of humanity consists of countless dramas and tragedies of entire nations, social groups, and individual personalities, each of whom has inscribed, in their own way, their page in the endless chronicle of the fate of our earthly abode. How different these stories are — about the Neanderthals who disappeared for unknown reasons and the Tasmanians who were destroyed under the guise of a civilizing mission; about the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah and the arson of the Reichstag; the loss of Alaska and the sinking of the 'Titanic'; the 'doctors' case' and the Afghan decade. And how many remarkable — both positive and not so — characters have been forever etched in the book of history: Tycho Brahe and Dracula; Leonardo da Vinci and Ivan Susanin; Captain Cook and Princess Tarakanova; Savva Morozov and Maxim Gorky; Jack the Ripper and the Kennedy family; Napoleon… Their deaths became a drama and a tragedy of sometimes world scale, and the significance of their lives has often been misjudged and generally misunderstood.

Many characters in this book, like the Iron Mask, still hide their true face, while others, such as Bluebeard and Fanny Kaplan, did not commit what has been attributed to them for many decades and even centuries.

The book prepares many unexpected discoveries and revelations for the reader — just like History itself.