Secrets of Russia. Secrets of the Russian Empire

Kir Bulychev — the pseudonym of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko (1934–2003), a famous Soviet science fiction writer, scholar of Eastern studies, and screenwriter.

The book is about the mysteries of the Russian Empire over the last two hundred years, from the beginning of Peter the Great's reign to the 1917 revolution.

«In my books, I did not categorize the mysteries into important and unimportant, known and forgotten, solved or unsolved. I pursued two goals: first, I wanted the story I told to be interesting. Secondly, I wanted young readers, after overcoming yet another essay, to remember something»