Best-selling historical writers Andrei Shary and Yaroslav Shimov, winners of the 2025 Enlightener Prize for their groundbreaking research on interwar Central Europe and the Balkans, present the first European edition of their acclaimed book on the Habsburg monarchy.
"Austria-Hungary: The Fate of an Empire" has become a reliable reference for those interested in the past and present of this extremely diverse and astonishingly fascinating region, a European Atlantis that is far less known to Russian-speaking readers than it deserves to be.
Leipzig-based publisher ISIA Media Verlag has included more than 200 illustrations and maps in the book, and the co-authors have expanded the text with new data and materials from trips to the region in recent years.
Authors:
will talk about the methodology of long-term research of the Central European region;
share their impressions of meetings with the head of the House of Habsburg;
will explain how Vienna and Berlin, the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns built rivalry and cooperation;
They will discuss whether cozy empires exist and how our past grows into the present.