Cagliostro
16 hrs. 0 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Nikolay Engelhardt
Author
Nikolay Engelhardt
Narrator
Alexander Koksharov
Narrator
Alexander Koksharov
Description
Adventures in Russia of Giuseppe Balsamo, who called himself “Count Cagliostro”—the famous 18th-century “sorcerer” and adventurer, whose boldness and ingenuity brought him wealth and connections in the highest circles of European society. Traveling around Europe, Cagliostro presented himself as a physician, an alchemist, a necromancer, and a Freemason, selling miraculous drinks and medicines, alchemical elixirs, love potions, and rejuvenating mixtures. An incomprehensible blend of genius and baseness, knowledge and ignorance, generosity and charlatanism—an adventurer and a missionary, a priest of mystery, an alchemist and a doctor who knows how to read the book of the stars. Cagliostro appears under different names in different countries. In 1779, the “magician” arrived in Saint Petersburg…
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