Dimitri

The novel “Dimitri” by the celebrated prose writer Alexei Makushinsky is a veritable time machine, transporting the reader between the winter Moscow of the early 1990s and the Time of Troubles. Historical events — the “first putsch” of 1991, the defense of the White House, the reign and demise of that enigmatic figure whom we are accustomed to calling False Dmitry I — merge into a single fantastical tapestry: whether in reality, in the mind, or in the madness of the narrator, who may himself be the greatest mystery of this extraordinary book.