Yuri Gagarin. Danilkin L.

Polls show that Yuri Gagarin is the main character of Russian history of the 20th century. It is all the more amazing that over many years in Russia there has not been created an adequate - frank, objective, attached to modernity - the biography of the first cosmonaut. “Yuri Gagarin” Lev Danilkin is an attempt “final”, if possible, closing all the gaps of the biography of the “Red Ikar”; The most complete chronicle of life today is a comprehension, which are the myth of Gagarin and the idea of ​​Gagarin. Interviews with eyewitnesses and the total revision of Russian and foreign sources helped the author answer basic questions. Is Gagarin just the embodiment of Soviet design - or was he really the owner of some unique qualities? What actually happened on April 12, 1961? How did the first astronaut dealt with Gagarinomania - the status of the most famous person of the planet? What is Gagarin: the product of the formation of both the era - or its mirror and justification? Is there a conflict between him and the political leadership of the USSR? What is the true cause of his death? Was his success only by luck, the result of conscious vitality - or the implementation of a certain higher plan? What would happen to Gagarin and the USSR - do not die the “first citizen of the Universe” in March 1968 and he will survive to this day?