"Take a time, hand, disappear all the loss!"

The publishing house "AST" ("Elena Shubina" editors) is published by the new book of historian Evgeny Anisimov, "A crowd of heroes of the 18th century." Anisimov-Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the European University in St. Petersburg, a passionate popularizer of history; He is the author of many books, including “The History of Russia from Rurik to Putin”, “Petersburg from the times of Peter the Great”, “The Dyba and Knut: Political Flaup and Russian Society in the XVIII century”, “Anna Ioannovna”, “Bagration”, etc. For Slon, Evgeny Anisimov gave a lecture on Peter I last fall.

Anisimov is famous for the briskness of his stories. “A crowd of heroes of the 18th century” is a collection of stories about the rulers, commanders, courtiers, scientists, travelers and other famous people of the past, whose images were pretty dusty in our minds. Anisimov masterfully blows this dust: he manages to narrate about each of the heroes, easily and freely, without overloading the reader with facts and at the same time without missing significant details. “Of course, it’s hard to write about the people of the past (as in general about people),” Anisimov notes in the preface to the book. - The author always risks falling into one or another extreme: either he is accepted to compose the “life” of the hero, trying to make amends for all the bumps of his biography, or, on the contrary, dips the feather in bile and writes a pamphlet, “exposing” his hero. I sought to avoid both. ”

Slon presents five fragments of the book.