«NASTOYASCHIY MATERIAL (INFORMATSIYU) PROIZVEL INOSTRANNYY AGENT CHHARTISHVILI GRIGORIY SHALVOVICH, LIBO MATERIAL (INFORMATSIYA) KASAETSYA DEYATELNOSTI DANNOGO INOSTRANNOGO AGENTA».Kogda vsyo vokrug chuzhoe, kogda uzhe net mesta somneniyam i nuzhno idti vperyod, on proydyot tam, gde do nego sdohli mnogie krutye parni, i on tochno znaet chto delat s lyuboy storony ot dulnogo sreza i probyot put tam, gde ego ne mozhet byt.Potomu chto on master dorog.«Epoha tsarits», to est sobytiya russkogo 18 stoletiya, - porazitelno interesnyy period otechestvennoy istorii, kogda Rossiya prevratilas v evraziyskuyu imperiyu, rasshiryayuschuyusya na zapad, yug i vostok. Eto vremya prepodaet nam neskolko vazhnyh urokov: ob ogranichennosti neogranichennoy vlasti, o neobhodimosti i riskovannosti reform, o tom, kak mozhno i kak nelzya pravit Rossiey.Kniga rasskazyvaet, kak zavyazyvalis «vechnye» rossiyskie uzly: natsionalnyy vopros, vnutriobschestvennoe protivostoyanie, zhazhda svobody i strah pered porozhdaemym im haosom.