Svistulkin. Simple A.

The book of Alexander is simple “Svistulkin” - a brilliant mystification that domestic literature did not know for a long time. The shadow of the villain of the murdered veteran of Potemkin’s battles is every now and then this is the power of this world in the key moments of Russian history. The fatal night in the newly rebuilt Mikhailovsky Palace, the Council in Fili, the chambers of Nicholas I on the eve of the December uprising, the fatal moments of the reign of Nicholas II, the terrible winter of 1942 in the besieged Leningrad - a ghostly trace of the devoted defender of the Fatherland Kuzma Stepanovich Svistulkin is everywhere. He warns, he directs, he seeks to take trouble.