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...

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 collection includes two novels by Ivan Pogonin, the main character of which, detective Mechislav Kuntsevich, goes from a small criminal episode to big th...

The adventures of the former detective police official Tarakanov begin when Osip Grigorievich, after the revolution, is mobilized against his will into the S...

“February 21st. g., at 11½ o'clock in the afternoon, living in house 15 on Liteiny Prospekt Acting State Councilor Gnoinsky, returning home, found two unknow...

1913 The Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire receives a letter from Prussia, in which a certain Franz Gerlitsky, the ...

“At the benefit performance of the corps de ballet, attention was involuntarily drawn to the abundance of “Sherlock-Holmes”, located in different tiers. In t...

The cycle of stories by Ivan Pogonin “Detective Odyssey” tells about the life and service of police warden Osip Tarakanov. The series begins with a story abo...

In the winter of 1889, the murder of General Shtrundman and her maid occurs in St. Petersburg. Suspicion falls on the footman, but detective Mechislav Kuntse...