The premiere of the popular science film "GREAT MYSTERIES. COLUMBUS"

For five centuries, historians and archivists have been grappling with the mystery of who Christopher Columbus really was. A brilliant hoaxer who invented a biography for himself? A commoner with Jewish roots on his mother's side? A noble, or even the illegitimate offspring of royalty? Or did a man named Christopher Columbus never exist at all?

Where did he actually come from? What did you do before the famous expedition in search of a shortcut to India? Where are his remains? And what sensational discovery about the legendary navigator has recently shocked the scientific world? A new scientific and documentary investigation "GREAT MYSTERIES. COLUMBUS" from the cycle of the NMH DOCK "THE GREAT ONES" provides answers to all these questions and restores the true biography of the legendary navigator.

Broadcast — on Sunday, May 17, at 23:55 — immediately after the "Final program with Peter Marchenko".