Maurice Maeterlinck - the world famous Belgian playwright, poet, essayist - was awarded the 1911 Nobel prize "for his multi-faceted literary activity, especially for dramatic works, marked by the richness of imagination and poetic imagination".
His high literary reputation of the leader is obliged mainly plays, which are still popular among the viewers, especially poetic tale "the Blue Bird" and its enchanting sequel to "the betrothal," and Debussy's Opera "pelléas and mélisande" is included in the repertoire of many theaters in the world. In addition to dramatic works, of course not represented in the collection as a poet and essayist.

Seminarian, lover boy, a terrorist, a poet, a meteorologist, pirate, hunter — and that's not all faces of Stalin, which is not yet a tyrant. Always there dozing ruthless dictator, capable of destroying millions of people? Why it was chosen stories? Which saw Stalin's contemporaries, who have not feared? To answer these questions, the British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore found unique archival documents and restored the pre-revolutionary period in the life of the Soviet leader, carefully locking each step on the way to the Kremlin throne.
The book "Young Stalin" Montefiore, exciting, balanced, and largely unexpected, caused a wide response of readers and became a world bestsellerdom. It adds important features to the portrait, created by the author in a previous biography of "Stalin. Courtyard red monarch".