Alexander II. Life and Death

Today this is the most famous historian among all writers and the most well-known writer among historians. At the same time, "Alexander II" is hardly the best of everything written by Radzinsky-historian. Clear characters, vivid - without reverence and breathlessness... - heroes, great love, painful jealousy... Brilliant aphorisms, crystal thoughts, sparkling through a detective intrigue, and some amazing combination of scale with the most detailed elaboration. In this book, epochs collide visibly - like icebergs. Before your eyes, one Russia splits and another is born. With an absolutely fair longing for freedom. With an absolutely wild notion that for the sake of freedom one can and should kill.» Elena Yampolskaya, «Izvestia»