We continue to present the work of the master of the old Russian historical novel and detective Nikolai Eduardovich HEINTZ. The main character of his two-volume book is a spendthrift, a zhuir and a rogue, a retired cornet Nikolai Savin, whose dissolute lifestyle first leads to financial bondage, then to the dock, and ultimately prompts him to engage in financial scams. The book is based on the true memoirs of a financial swindler and impostor, which he gave to a police officer before being sent to Siberia