Cry, Margarita

«Cry, Margarita» — the first part of the artistic-documentary trilogy by Elena Syayanova, dedicated to the history of the fascist Third Reich «from dawn to dusk».

At the center of the novel are the fates of future German leaders — Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Hess, their families, and people from their inner circle. The plot is based on a vast array of archival documents, most of which were previously inaccessible. (In the preface to each novel in the trilogy, the history of access to these documents and working with them is described in detail.) Transcripts, personal correspondence, diaries, notebooks, love letters, and poems... «A writer cannot hate their characters, but I hate them. Therefore, as an author, I simply should not exist in this novel — only they will remain.

As they were hidden from history for many decades, revealing only to each other, to their relatives, to their loved ones» — this is the task the author set for herself. The time period is 1930-1931, a time of rapid growth in the popularity of the National Socialist Party and its young, self-assured, future-oriented leaders. The first steps towards collapse.