Russian writer Elena Kagan, known under the pseudonym Rzhevskaya, died on Tuesday, April 25. This was reported in her Facebook her granddaughter, the translator Lyubov Sum.
Rzhevskaya participated in the search for Adolf Hitler during the storming of Berlin, recalls in her Facebook literary critic Anna Narinskaya.
"When the burial was found in the forest and the body was dug up, it was decided to confirm the genuineness of the body with teeth after being burned for the first time on a double.. And physically. The medical map of the Fuhrer with the description of the seals was available, so that the jaw was broken (I do not know if I could say that) and was sent to Moscow together with the map. How? In the pocket of Elena Rzhevskaya, "writes Narinskaya.
Among her works are such books as "Goebbels: a portrait against the backdrop of a diary", "Berlin, May 1945", "Behind the Twentieth Century" and "Punctuation marks".