Archangel. Poster of the 2005 TV series and cover of the 1998 book
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Archangel
Robert Harris, 1998
TV series vs book
Jon Jones, 2005

An English expert on Soviet history, is in Moscow for an academic conference on Joseph Stalin. After the conference, Papu Rapava, an old man, says that he has important information for Dr. Kelso. In Hotel Ukraine, where Kelso is staying, Rapava recounts in detail how he, as a young security guard in 1953, witnessed the death of Stalin.