The action of the story “The Last Exhibition” takes place in Nizhny Novgorod in 1896. The XVI All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition has opened. The young...

College adviser Lykov committed a crime before his superiors. Bandits killed the parents of his assistant Sergei Avestopulo in Odessa. And he involved Sergei...

In the spring of 1884, dark, heavy ice left the Neva late. The dank, damp wind began to wash ugly, swollen corpses to the shores and shallows. This time ther...

1906 Empress Alexandra Feodorovna entrusted Prime Minister Stolypin with an unusual task. Two years ago, the miraculous icon of the Kazan Mother of God was s...

This collection is a kind of illustration for the essay “Geography of Evil” from the book-research “Daily Life of the St. Petersburg Detective Police.” The b...

The book takes place in 1900. It's a leap year, people don't like it; it is believed to bring bad luck. According to the calendar, February 29 is the day of ...

In January 1911, a bank was robbed in Novorossiysk. More than a dozen armed raiders burst inside, killed a policeman, stole a large sum of money and went int...

If you think that the art of escorting is a modern phenomenon, then you are mistaken. It was owned by women back in the times of the Empire, in which even th...

The action of Nikolai Svechin’s novel “The Ural Echo” takes place in the summer of 1913: a detective police supervisor went missing in St. Petersburg. The bo...

Minister of Internal Affairs Plehve instructed Lykov to investigate the circumstances of the death of the scientist Mikhail Filippov, who in the summer of 19...

End of 1911. Stolypin was killed, a new minister Makarov appeared in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He immediately disliked State Councilor Lykov. Makarov...

“...In the middle of the room stood a boy of about five or six years old, pale from the cold, with frightened, haunted eyes. He was dressed in a good quality...