Загадки истории России

This book will tell you about things far beyond the usual unsolved problems in science. Why are scientists and local historians looking for the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible or Sannikov Land with such inexhaustible persistence? And the "Tunguska miracle"? What exploded over a Siberian river in 1908: a comet, a meteorite, or a spaceship from other worlds? No less significant are sometimes the mysteries of the history of the crowned rulers of Russia. Could Alexander I, the conqueror of Napoleon, give up his throne and glory in order to go through the endless Russian expanses as a quiet wanderer, the old man Fyodor Kuzmich? .. The history of miraculous icons and the Amber Room, the mysteries of the biography of Princess Tarakanova and Felix Dzerzhinsky, even the story of Munchausen, who, it turns out, was a Russian lieutenant - that's what this book is about.