Deadly handwriting of the leader. Repression in the mirror of the era

This book is a collection of documentary essays based on personal testimonies, interrogations and memoirs of people who, by the will of fate, dealt with the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD-KGB. The vast majority of these documents are still considered one of the largest secrets of the country. As a scientist K.E. Tsiolkovsky? Why Fritz Platten, the man to whom the Bolsheviks owe everyone - after all, he brought Lenin in an allegedly sealed carriage, and then saved from the first assassination attempt - became the victim of Stalin and was turned into camp dust? How did Lenin hold on the sight a packed bandit of the Jacob Koshelkov? It is still unknown whether the semi -sunken Fanny Kaplan was really shooting at Lenin. So who actually stood at the origins of the assassination attempt? The author tried to find answers to these difficult questions, of course, based on documents and irrefutable facts