Through centuries and countries. B.I. Nikolaevsky. The fate of the Menshevik, historian, Sovietologist, main witness

The book for the first time in detail the life, political and scientific path of a person, about which in Russia almost do not know, although his life was a truly civil feat. The active leader of the revolutionary movement (Bolshevik, and then Menshevik), Boris Ivanovich Nikolaevsky took part in the revolution of 1905, repeatedly undergoing arrests and links, made shoots, met with prominent underground agers of the time, including Lenin and Stalin. After the October coup in 1917, Nikolaevsky joined the political struggle against the Bolshevik power and at the same time collaborated with her, trying to save the most valuable documentary wealth of the country, and then continued his own mobile activity in emigration (since 1922 lived in Germany, France, USA ) All this is the authors of the book, famous historians Yuri Felshtinsky and Georgy Chernyavsky, are told alone and fascinating, resorting to the help of the richest funds of Russian and foreign archives, numerous publications. Pages are read with an exciting interest about how Nikolayevsky saved not only Russians, but also German archival documents from the Nazis, exporting them first, in 1933, after coming to the authorities of the Nazis, from Germany to France, then, in 1940 , After the occupation of Paris"s Nazis, from France in the United States