The legend of noble Russia is Giuseppe Balsamo, known to the world as Count Cagliostro... Official biographers call him an adventurer, or even just a petty swindler, who never stayed for a long time, either in his native Italy or in other European countries, so as not to come to light his fraud. Of course, the easiest way is to assume that he, having joined some Masonic lodge, lived at the expense of the “brothers” who did not have time to figure him out, and he himself invented that he was the “Great Copt”, who was initiated in the secret temples of Egypt, a wise alchemist who owns the secret of the Philosopher's Stone and the secret of immortality, a great magician who reads thoughts. But were everyone who trusted him really so stupid and gullible? After all, among them are people like the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. Although subsequently the crowned ruler actually expelled him from Russia... Sign of information products 12+