Кладбищенские истории

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Another book, undersigned by two names – both by Boris Akunin and Grigory Chkhartishvili. Here again there is a skilful intertwinement of rather strict historical and scientific researches on cemeteries, various graves and all kinds of other burial places with different exciting and mesmerizing stories concerning cemeteries. Someone of them two – either Akunin or Chkhartishvili, even jokes: "I have also learned that I am a taphophile, a "cemetery lover" – it turns out that there is such an exotic hobby (with some others it is a mania) under the sun. But I can be called a taphophile only figuratively – I have not collected cemeteries and tombs, I have been interested in the Mystery of the Past Tense: where it goes and what happens to people who inhabited it". Hence every reader can choose that thing, in this book, which beguiles him more – the little-known short story about Erast Fandorin's adventures, or the research essay about the cemetary Père Lachaise - the place where, in the author's opinion, one can meet that France, which everyone creates in his mind since childhood: aventure, mystere, amour…