“The Wall” is the first novel by Vladimir Medinsky, author of “Myths of Russia” and “The War(s).” Listeners recognize familiar themes, but now they come alive in an adventurous plot. Medinsky revives a genre that in our country was almost never developed… “The Three Musketeers” is France at the beginning of the 17th century. The whole world knows this legend. Medinsky took the same epoch—only ours, in Russia (that is precisely the Time of Troubles)—and wrote an adventure novel. However, Medinsky’s story is something else than Dumas’s. If for the great French novelist it was the nail on which he hung his picture, then for Medinsky the opposite is true: the entire picture is the story, and the inventions are just to nail on and frame it a little, because our Russian history provides such fantastic plots that you don’t need to invent anything. “The Wall” is Russian Umberto Eco and, in part, our Orthodox Dan Brown. On the cover: the wall of a preserved fortress around which everything takes place…