Why did Vladimir Putin win the election? What unites Peter I, Catherine II and Boris Yeltsin? What is Nostradamus "true identity, and what did the monk Abel prophesy? Why were the Stradivarius violins stolen? What did the papyrus tell about the creation of the world? How did the Varyag cruiser actually die? Could the outcomes of the Battle of the Ice and the Battle of the Kursk Bulge be different?..