20 puzzles of Russian history

The historian is always a little detective. Like Sherlock Holmes or Erkul Poiro, he must study the evidence left by participants or eyewitnesses of events. He must understand which of the witnesses is telling the truth, and who is lying, who is mistaken and who simply did not understand what he saw - and then endure his balanced judgment. But unlike Holmes and Poirot, the opinion of the historian is rarely final and correct. Such detectives can always have several different solutions, and in this book we will compare the various versions of events that occurred many centuries ago, think about the weaknesses and strengths of each of them, so that after that the reader can decide for himself: who killed the saints Boris and Gleb? What happened to Tsarevich Dmitry? Where did the library of Ivan the Terrible go? And was Lenin a German spy?

What comes to mind when we talk about the riddles of history? Maybe we are talking about buried treasures or a villainous conspiracies? Or about events that can not give any reasonable explanation? In fact, we mean events that little is known: important documents have disappeared, ancient buildings were buried underground. In this case, the historian, like a detective, thrust the thread of the past step by step. He must study the evidence left by the participants or eyewitnesses of events, to understand which of the witnesses tells the truth, and who is lying, who is mistaken and who simply did not understand what he saw, and only then to bear his balanced judgment. But often the opinion of such a detective historian is rarely unambiguous and final: for one riddle, there can be several different, even opposite, clunning.
Author of this book, a history teacher Tamara Natanovna Eidelman, Honored Teacher of Russia, offers readers to compare different versions of the clunes put forward by scientists, think over the weaknesses and strengths of each of them, to make his own conclusion: who killed the saints Boris and Gleb, what happened to Tsarevich Dmitry, where the library of Ivan the Terrible disappeared, and was Lenin a German spy?

For secondary school age