About the book: 2012 / Dear readers! We present to you a new book from the “Golden Series” library of the newspaper “Secrets of the 20th Century” - “The Fates of the Great.” “Famous people are divided into two categories: some humanity does not want to forget, others it cannot” (Wladislaw Grzeszczyk, Polish writer). There are people who change the world, contribute to the development of the economy, science, art... Or, on the contrary, they completely destroy what has already been created, throwing humanity back tens, if not hundreds of years. Be that as it may, both of them make our history, decide the fate of nations and remain forever in the memory of mankind. The first part of the digest is entirely dedicated to Russian writers. There is no person who has never heard of Pushkin, Bulgakov, Yesenin... It would seem that the history of their lives has been studied far and wide. But we will convince you that this is not at all the case. “The Edge of the Unknown.” Pioneers are the first everywhere: in the Arctic ice, in the sky, in space. Sedov, Chkalov, Gagarin - and there are many secrets in their lives. The remaining sections are no less interesting. Of course, it’s impossible to cover everything, but we promise that this book will not be the last in our series of the newspaper’s library “Secrets of the 20th Century”».