Lykov’s assistant, titular councilor Avestopulo, went to his parents in Odessa, and a misfortune happened there. Fanatic bandit Stepan Balutsa killed old peo...

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...

In December 1913, a series of attacks on the cash boxes of military units took place in Primorye. The sentries were stabbed to death, as well as the spotters...

In the spring of 1907, the authorities sent Lykov to Rostov-on-Don for an inspection. But as soon as the detective began to audit the local police, a tragedy...

The library of the project “Daily Life of the St. Petersburg Detective Police” presents the stories of its chiefs Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin and Mikhail Florov...