Aelita

The book by Aleksei Tolstoy “Aelita”, published in 1923, tells the astonishing story of a journey to Mars—an adventure that continues to attract the attention of modern readers. The original version of this famous book was rewritten in the USSR, and only in the 1980s did it become available to domestic readers. In the Soviet edition, the scientific atheists removed from the text the esoteric part filled with ideas of famous mystics, leaving only the poetic plot. But what did the original accounts of a visit to Mars by atlanter-magezytles and their sunken homeland actually look like? This is a story that remains a mystery to this day.