Minister on trust: essays. Cinema. Zvyagintsev A.

These stories, processes, investigations at one time rattled not only in the country, but throughout the world. Everyone knew their heroes and victims then, they talked about them, and argued fiercely. And most often they converged in the opinion that much remained unknown, unsolved, inaccessible, despite the sentences of the court.

in such cases it is customary to say - time will judge. And now years, decades have passed. Other times, other morals, other values. But these stories continue to surprise, disturb, make you think a lot.

Did time judge? Something, of course, cleared up, overgrown with details, new facts. But perhaps the main questions today: why was this possible? Can there be repetition? Have people have changed since then and how? - And now they are waiting for answers. It is the author who is looking for - the most famous Russian lawyer and historian. The thing is that no consequence or a single court can give answers to such questions. To pass their verdict to everyone who reads this book.

a rich illustrative material, often hitherto unknown, gives a great opportunity to plunge into the described era, lively and more precisely to imagine its heroes and characters.