Missing conspiracy

Igor Volgin - historian, poet, researcher of Russian literature, founder and president of the Dostoevsky Foundation. His books, translated into many foreign languages, marked a new turn in world historical and biographical prose.
"The missing conspiracy" is dedicated to the tragic episode of the Russian XIX century and at the same time the decisive turning in Dostoevsky’s life. The wealth of archival materials, many of which are unfamiliar to the reader, allows the author to reconstruct the aspects of the political process of Petrashevtsev, who ended with a grandiose staging of the death penalty on the Semenovsky parade ground.
A wide historical and domestic background is organically combined in a book with surprisingly deep and exact psychological characteristics of the actors - from Nicholas I to the agent -provocator Antonelli, from Petrashevsky and his members of his circle to their "exposure - General Liprandi, who once had once another friend Pushkin.
The book is intended for a wide range of readers. Equipped with fundamental blocks of genuine historical documents, it can also serve as an a manual-chrestor for secondary and higher educational institutions