Edvard Radzinsky (Russian: Эдвард Станиславович Радзинский) (b. September 29, 1936, Moscow). He graduated from the Moscow Historical Archive Institute. Since 1960 he wrote plays and film scenarios. Since 1990s Radzinsky has been writing the books in the series Mysteries of the History ("Загадки истории"). September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Moscow (Russian: МоÑкваÌ, Moskva, IPA: ) is the capital of Russia and the countrys principal political, economic, financial, educational and transportation center, located on the river Moskva. ...
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Mysteries of the History
Беседы с Сократом
Гибель галантного века
Игры писателей. Неизданный Бомарше
Иоанн мучитель
Коба (монолог старого человека)
Лунин, или смерть Жака
Любовные сумасбродства Джакомо Казановы
На Руси от ума одно горе
Наполеон: Жизнь после смерти
Нерон и Сенека
Несколько встреч с покойным господином Моцартом
Николай II: жизнь и смерть
The Last Tsar : The Life and Death of Nicholas II
(1992, Doubleday) ISBN 1385423730 (hardcover)
(1993, Anchor, reprint) ISBN 0385469624 (paperback)
(2005) ISBN 074327332X (hardcover)
О любви к математике
Последняя из дома Романовых
Последняя ночь последнего царя
Прогулки с палачом
Распутин: жизнь и смерть
The Rasputin File (2001, Anchor, USA) ISBN 0385489102 (paperback)
Rasputin: The Last Word (2001, Allen & Unwin , Australia) ISBN 1865085294 (paperback)
Тайна Иоаннова сына
Театр времени Нерона и Сенеки
Александр II. Последний великий царь
Alexander II : The Last Great Tsar (2005) ISBN 074327332X (hardcover)
(with Peter Kurth & Peter Christopher (photographer)) Tsar : The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra ISBN 0316557889 (paperback)
Сталин
Stalin : The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives (1997) ISBN 0385479549 (paperback)
Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, EdvardRadzinsky has broken down the iron curtain of myth, secrecy and lies that has surrounded Stalin's life and career, painting a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined.
Radzinsky also takes an intimate look at Stalin's private life, marked by his turbulent relationship with his wife Nadezhda, and recreates the circumstances that led to her suicide.
Radzinsky wrote a biography that is not your typical BORING biography.
Paranoid, cynical and pragmatic, he was like a stone, an inscrutable, almost passive obstacle against which his often more intelligent enemies found themselves blunted and spent; the same silent, wordlessly lucid countenance that made him a virtual god in Russia while he lived.
Radzinsky makes this scenario, so ironic as to be dramatically implausible from most perspectives, seem inevitable, Churchill little more than yet another great planet drawn irresistably into the orbit of this inscrutable cipher.
Radzinskys admiration for Stalin, merely the admiration of one artist for another - moreover one who has been given access to a palette richer and larger than his - blurs the line between biography and unwitting hagiography.
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