Prince. Notes of a Informant

The mirage of imperial Petersburg, the luxury of the Romanov palaces… and the sad Petersburg of Dostoevsky, the miserable apartments of terrorists, where these bloody idealists were preparing the future of the Motherland, — these are the main settings of the book.
The heroes of the narrative are Emperor Alexander II, the last great tsar and the first Don Juan of Europe, who meticulously described in a secret diary five assassination attempts on his own life and his last mad love, and Prince V-, a descendant of the famous Rurikovich family... a secret agent of the secret police. Through his eyes, we will see the rulers of thought of the era — Dostoevsky and Herzen, Bakunin and Marx. And our famous young revolutionaries who created the most powerful terrorist organization in Europe.
And above them all — the immortal Russian secret police, invisibly guiding the life of the country and ensnaring Russia in its web, in which the Empire ultimately suffocated. However, there is a main victor in the book, smiling at all these ruthless political passions. This is the " science of tender passion" that ultimately triumphed over them all — both the Don Juan emperor, and the unyielding terrorists, and the unfortunate handsome Prince V-...