About the book: 2020 / On a rainy autumn evening in 2002 in Moscow, fifty armed terrorists broke into the building of the theater center on Dubrovka, where the popular musical " Nord-Ost". They managed to capture nearly a thousand hostages. What was this terrorist attack, one of the largest in Russian history? What was the goal of the terrorists? Could they have won? Alexander Dyukov competently answers these questions, relying in his work not only on eyewitness accounts, but also on materials from the official investigation. His book is the most detailed description of the terrorist attack on Dubrovka, alien to any conspiracy theories.