Двадцать загадок русской истории

Istorik - vsegda nemnozhko detektiv. Podobno Sherloku Kholmsu ili Ėrki͡uli͡u Puaro, on dolzhen izuchitʹ svidetelʹstva, ostavlennye uchastnikami ili ochevidt͡sami sobytiĭ. On dolzhen poni͡atʹ, kto iz svideteleĭ govorit pravdu, a kto lzhet, kto oshibaetsi͡a, a kto prosto ne poni͡al, chto videl, - a potom vynesti svoe vzveshennoe suzhdenie. No, v otlichie ot vyvodov Kholmsa i Puaro, mnenie istorika redko byvaet okonchatelʹnym i pravilʹnym. U takikh detektivov vsegda mozhet bytʹ neskolʹko razgadok, i v ėtoĭ knige my budem sravnivatʹ raznoobraznye versii sobytiĭ, proizoshedshikh mnogo vekov nazad, obdumyvatʹ slabye i silʹnye storony kazhdoĭ iz nikh, chtoby posle ėtogo chitatelʹ smog reshitʹ dli͡a sebi͡a: kto zhe ubil svi͡atykh Borisa i Gleba? Chto proizoshlo s t͡sarevichem Dmitriem? Kuda propala biblioteka Ivana Groznogo? I byl li Lenin nemet͡skim shpionom? Avtor - istorik, prepodavatelʹ istorii, Tamara Natanovna Ėĭdelʹman, zasluzhennyĭ uchitelʹ Rossii, avtor kanala 'Istorii s Tamaroĭ Ėĭdelʹman'.

A historian is always a bit of a detective. Like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, he must examine the evidence left by participants or eyewitnesses of the 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 make his informed judgment. But, unlike the conclusions of Holmes and Poirot, the historian's opinion is rarely final and correct. Such detectives can always have several solutions, and in this book we will compare various versions of events that happened many centuries ago, ponder the weaknesses and strengths of each of them, so that after that the reader can decide for himself.: Who killed Saints Boris and Gleb? What happened to Prince Dmitry? Where did Ivan the Terrible's library go? And was Lenin a German spy? The author is a historian, history teacher, Tamara Natanovna Eidelman, Honored Teacher of Russia, author of the channel "Stories with Tamara Eidelman".