Moscow Rus' of the 16th century. Vast expanses, dense forests, wide rivers. To the south, beyond the Wild Steppe, are the possessions of the Crimean Khanate,...

On August 24, 1911, all French newspapers came out with sensational news: Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre. Police Prefect...

Paris at the beginning of the 20th century... The sparkling capital of the world - theaters, balls, restaurants, luxurious lamas, high society dandies... But...

Kulik is a tough thief, but fair. He never shot anyone in the back, never hit someone who was lying down, or slipped a knife on the sly. Maybe that’s why he ...

In 1918, a group of security officers removed confiscated jewelry from Irkutsk. On the way to Petrograd, the Cheka employees are faced with a serious problem...

At the end of the war, lawyer Gleb Serebryakov was brutally murdered in his Moscow apartment. The apartment was robbed. MUR investigator Efim Berezhnoy is su...

Kulik is a tough thief, but fair. He never shot anyone in the back, never hit someone who was lying down, or slipped a knife on the sly. Maybe that’s why he ...

Count Vielgorsky's chief manager has disappeared. He left to collect money from the estates and never returned. The count turned to the Moscow Chief of Polic...

Having infiltrated a leadership position in the Gossnabvooruzheniye concern, Varyag managed to direct colossal profits from the illegal arms trade to the nee...

The attempts of the boyars to woo the Polish princess to Tsar Ivan were unsuccessful. King Sigismund had heard a lot about the debauchery of the young Moscow...

The Grand Duke of All Rus' Vasily the Third, without waiting for an heir from his wife Solomonia, exiles his hateful wife to a monastery. The new empress, th...

Virtuoso card sharper Potap Feoktistov beats another “client” and receives a genuine painting by Rembrandt as a debt. The criminal picks up a priceless paint...