Baron Munchausen: Germany-Russia. Makeev S.L.

The name of Baron Munhgauzen - an incorrigible liar, inventor and dreamer - is known to everyone since childhood. Many also know that a person with such a name - genuine Jerome Karl Friedrich von Munchausen - really lived in Germany in the 18th century and left a memory in Russia, where his military service was held. But how was this person really? What events of his genuine biography served as the basis of his cheerful stories? And what role in creating a legendary image did the authors of the first printed works written on his behalf play - German writers R. E. Razpe and G. A. Burger? To answer these and many other questions, the author of the book, writer Sergei Makeev, passed The earthly roads of the real Munchausen in Germany and Russia, and then the fantastic ways of the fictional baron. And it turned out that attempts to separate one from the other are only partially possible and only for a short time - for these two characters, according to a strange law of mutual attraction, again and again merge into indissoluble unity, continuing to surprise us with new and new facets of their own. extraordinary personality.