About the book: 2015 / In her new book, writer, journalist and historian Elena Syanova, as before (Vremya publishing house published "Ten from the Deck Hitler" and "Hitler_directory"), continues to peer carefully into the depths of centuries and decades. The destinies and events she writes about might seem insignificant against the backdrop of the great heroes and great villains of past eras - Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler... But these “little tragedies” have one amazing property - each of them, like a magnifying glass, brings closer other times come to us, fills them with living blood and living meaning.