On top of barriers with Ivan Tolstoy

Who said Terrr is big? The expression has become so familiar as if it had always lived. Meanwhile, he has a completely accurate date of birth - 1974, when the book of Robert Conquest was published in the fictional Florentine publishing house of Edizione Aurora. Before its printing, a dispute flared up: is the epithet "big" correctly? Rather, great or somehow, but not so ordinary. The story of the translation and the struggle for the title is dedicated to a conversation with the translator of the book by the journalist and writer Leonid Vladimirov (1924-2015), who first aired in August 2012-on the 75th anniversary of this very terror. Now, in the next anniversary, a repetition will sound.