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. How did the scientist K. E. Tsiolkovsky ended up in the cellars of Lubyanka? Why Fritz Platten, the man to whom the Bolsheviks owe everyone - after all, he brought Lenin in an supposedly sealous car, and then saved from the first assassination - became the victim of Stalin and was turned into camp dust? How did Lenin hold on the sight a red -hot bandit Jacob Koshelkov? It is still unknown whether the semi -drunken 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.