In Soviet times, it was impossible to write about Count Ivan Osipovich Witte, or only very bad, purely negative things could be written, because it was he who exposed the impending Decembrist conspiracy to Alexander Pavlovich. This happened in Taganrog, a few weeks before the death of the emperor. But now it is possible and even necessary to write about Count Witte - especially in connection with the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. Count Witt personified the personal secret police of Emperor Alexander I. And it all started with the fact that after Tilsit in 1807, Count Witt, the youngest colonel of the Russian guard (25 years old), suddenly unexpectedly retired and a few months later found himself in Europe, in the army Napoleon, and even in the traveling office of the French emperor. Fellow soldiers wanted to remove him from the lists of the guard through the regimental court, but Alexander Pavlovich stopped this without explaining it in any way. And in 1812, a few weeks before the start of the war. Ivan Witt crossed the border and came to Barclay de Tolly with a whole suitcase of secret French intelligence documents. Thus began Witt's career as the personal agent of the Russian Emperor. In this book, for the first time, the entire biography of Count Ivan Witt, full of the most incredible twists, has been restored.