The loudest shots are heard when political assassinations occur. Some of them change the fate of entire nations. In a series of historical essays united under the title «The Loudest Shots in History and Famous Terrorists», well-known journalist, international commentator, and TV host Leonid Mlechin tells of the most famous political assassinations and terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of major state and political figures in various countries and influenced the further course of history.
The first part of the audiobook tells about the murders of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Russia Pyotr Stolypin, the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the friend of the Russian emperor’s family Grigory Rasputin, about the famous terrorists Maria Spiridonova and Boris Savinkov, about the attempt on the leader of the world proletariat Vladimir Lenin, about the murders of Soviet state figures Vaclav Vorovsky and Sergei Kirov, and much more.
Contents:
00_From the author
01_Two shots during the intermission
02_Gavrilo Princip’s Browning
03_Grigory the calamity-bearer
04_The life and death of Maria Spiridonova
05_A grenade in Yakov Blyumkin’s briefcase
06_Fanny Kaplan’s bullets
07_The dead soul of Boris Savinkov
08_Adolf Hitler’s circle of friends
09_The death of two plenipotentiaries
10_The murder of the President of France
11_The adventures of Horst Wessel
12_The murder of Walther Rathenau
13_Who killed Kirov?