The Temptation of a Miracle: The 'Russian Prince' and Impostors

14 hrs. 10 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexander Mylnikov

Narrator Margarita Ivanova

Description

Alexander Milyonikov (August 24, 1929, Leningrad — February 3, 2003) was a Soviet and Russian historian. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1999). From service staff. In 1952 he graduated from the Law Faculty of Leningrad State University, where under the supervision of I. I. Yakovkin he specialized in the history of medieval Slavic law. He also attended lectures in the history and philology faculties. After graduating from university, he worked for over 20 years at the State Public Library. In 1962–1973 he was the head of the Manuscripts Department. Milyonikov’s scientific activity covered problems of the history of culture, public thought, and book printing in Slavic countries—especially the Czech lands—in the XVIII–XIX centuries. In 1958 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences: “Czech political and historical thought in the bibliographic works of Czech scholars and publicists (20–40s of the 19th century).” Many of his works are devoted to studying manuscript collections kept in Leningrad. In 1972 he defended his doctoral dissertation: “The emergence of national educational ideology in the Czech lands in the 18th century.” Since 1973, A. S. Milyonikov worked at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences (senior researcher, head of the department). Since 1992 he has been the director of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great.

Contents:

01_00_Unusual meetings at crossroads of history. Instead of a preface
01_01_Seven variations on the theme of a miracle
01_02_Riddles of the Gradec letter
01_03_The price of bias
02_00_A prisoner of power
02_01_Heir to three thrones
02_02_Only 186 days
02_03_Thorns—peacemaking
03_00_The transformation of reality
03_01_Bad impressions
03_02_Action and counteraction
03_03_Estafettes of the “wonderful rescue”
04_00_An embodiment in Montenegro
04_01_The man from the realm of Moscow
04_02_“I still don’t know who he is and where he is from”
04_03_Legend in the flow of life
05_00_An embodiment on the Yaik
05_01_For obtaining “Free liberty”
05_02_We do not wish to go on a campaign
05_03_Appearance from a secret place
06_00_A prisoner of legend
06_01_An unlikeable emperor
06_02_Crossing paths of human communication
06_03_Physical ghosts of imagination
07_00_Unusual meetings at crossroads of history. Instead of an epilogue
07_01_Who is the emperor?
07_02_Who is the impostor?
07_03_01_Legend in the illusion of a miracle