About the book: year / While studying a large number of different sources in the preparation of novels, telling about events and times that were interesting to me, I was very quickly surprised to discover that “historical information” is overwhelmingly divided into two main categories: “outright lies” and “complete nonsense.” The words of boastfully teaching “historian types” are in fact empty rubbish, unrelated to the truth. You have to discover the truth yourself over and over again, painstakingly comparing dozens of invariably contradictory sources. Let me give you a few examples. And in order to avoid accusations of “Fomenkovism” so beloved by “type historians”, in my examples I will rely only and exclusively on those facts and sources that are quite officially recognized as reliable by “official science” itself».