Abstract
The author examines the contribution of a famous Russian scholar Andrey Leonidovich Shemyakin (1960-2018) to the study of the role of Russian volunteers in the Serbian-Turkish War of 1876. In particular, the proof of the well-known hypothesis that Nikolai Rayevsky III served as a prototype for the image of Count Alexei Vronsky in the novel by Leo Tolstoy “Anna Karenina”. The article highlights the debate with adherents of anti-scientific myths and misconceptions that have become widespread in connection with the biography of Rayevsky and another well-known figure of the volunteer movement, General M.G. Chernyaev.
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