The case of the blue beard, or the stories of people who have become famous characters: Sergey Makeev

Baron Gilles de Re, Marshal of France and the Alchemist, who served as the prototype of the Blue Beard, went down in history as almost the most famous sadist, sexual pervert and serial killer. But did the folk rumor thickened the colors, and after it the storyteller Charles Perrault – was the baron so vicious in fact? And Mazepa? Not the Pushkin character, but the real hetman of Ukraine – who was he, a traitor or a hero? And what is common between the beauty of the Cherkeshenka Satan, who became the wife of the Russian nobleman Nechvolodov, and the Lermontov Beli? And who is Yevlalia Kadmina, whose fate was reflected in the heroines of Turgenev, Kuprin, Leskov and several other less famous authors? And were there concrete, and not collective prototypes among the heroes of Fenimor Cooper, George Orwell and Varlam Shalamov? The writer, author of the newspaper “Top Secret” Sergey Makeev, tells about this and much more about this in its extremely entertaining book.

Author
Makeev Sergey Lvovich
Editor
Kapustin V.
Artist
Tibilova Irina
Publisher
Lomonosov, 2013
Series
Story. Geography. Ethnography

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