Age of Enlightenment. 2nd edition, fixed. Ilyinsky P.O.

Three subjects, without which the history of the empire does not do: war, a coup d'etat and a rampant epidemic, which exactly corresponds to three parts of the novel and the issues that its heroes faced. Why did the Russian army not lose the most famous battle of the Seven Years War? Why did Peter III lose the throne, and what death did he actually die? Who saved Moscow from the plague?

at these events, a visiting French doctor, a Russian average rank, British businessman and Moscow factory worker, look at these events for fifteen years. The memoirs of one, the secret diary of the other, government decrees, miraculously preserved private letters - how were they listed in the same archival folder? But the reader is waiting for more difficult questions. How blind or insight is an eyewitness? Is the memoirist, who is on the verge of death, why embellish reality to the writer of the diary, which he will hide even from loved ones is always honest? And is there a small grain of truth in the political documents of any era?

The main topic of the book: clash, interaction, rivalry and cooperation of Russia and the West.

The further the author wrote the novel, the more modern He became.