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By Boris Frezinsky

This book by the specialist in the history of literature Boris Frezinski includes three dozen stories about people widely known (Nathan Altman, Ilya Ilf, Vasilij Grossman), as well as about people less famous. All of them lived in the ХХ century – the century of global catastrophies – and worked mainly in the Russian Empire or USSR. The book begins with the narration of the Solomon Mikhoels’s death – the murder which marked Stalin’s introduction of a new political course.