About the book: 2008 / The book by literary historian Boris Frezinsky contains 31 plots. Their heroes are both well-known people (Solomon Mikhoels, Nathan Altman, Ilya Ilf or Vasily Grossman) and much less famous ones. All of them lived in the 20th century - the century of world catastrophes - and worked mainly on the territory of the Russian Empire or the USSR. It is no coincidence that the book begins with the story of the murder of Solomon Mikhoels - a landmark crime for the Soviet era, which revealed the beginning of Stalin’s new political course…