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From the Author
Instead of prologue. Thoughts about the hero, about which at first little was known
Part I
Chapter 1. Who to thank for happy childhood?
Chapter 2. Two Secretaries and the Third Secretary
Chapter 3. Berlin tango with the aroma of Greek Fig tree
Chapter 4. What can you do make for victory?
Chapter 5 “The West remained a stranger,East is not my East…”
Chapter 6. War is the worst thing people can think of
Chapter 7. People can't stand it…”
Chapter 8 "Will you love me forever?”
Chapter 9 “Honestly I share the fate of earthly things”
Chapter 10. In Baghdad, all is not calm, or a Plane upside down
Chapter 11. The official visit to Generalissimo's palace
Chapter 12. Who can remain deaf to the ringing of the bell?
Chapter 13. Chunjie – Chinese New Year
Chapter 14 “Where so freely breathing people”
Part II
Chapter 1. One box of vodka for one month – is a lot or little?
Chapter 2. The parade 1941 through the eyes of eyewitnesses
Chapter 3. Confidential conversation after the credentials
Chapter 4 "The confrontation between the two old thieves”
Chapter 5. Churchill in Moscow, or The great trouble of the “English beginning”
Chapter 6. XXV birthday of the October Revolution
Chapter 7. The time of the “Golden youth”
Chapter 8. Teheran was temporarily cut off from the world
Chapter 9 “Molotov, let's get out of here – we have too much to do at home”
Chapter 10. What color socks should a gentleman wear?
Chapter 11. In the Livadia palace and outside its walls
Chapter 12. Change of locations and scenery
Chapter 13. Farewell of Slavianka, or the Russian slave
Chapter 14. Look for women, or “Washington cherries”
Chapter 15 “The Cambridge five” – who is the fifth?
Chapter 16. Against mountains, overgrown with rhododendrons
Instead of an epilogue. А little sketch about, what happened half a century later
I have always been interested in the line that the author is allowed to cross in historical books, when he writes how everything happened, what exactly the characters of his work said. This line between fiction and speculation occupies me today. For detective or romance novels, this is not so important. And for historical novels it is very important.
As an author, it gives me great pleasure to tell the unknown about people who have left a noticeable mark in history. Such people very many, and here is know about them most often very few. And so it does not matter, in my opinion, what and how the characters say, what they wear and what they ride. These are details. And much more important are their actions, their difficult life path with all its repetitions.
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‘It smells like figs and Cologne.’
Sophie laughed her silver bell.
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