From Dads to Thieves. The History of Organized Crime in Russia

Organized crime has its roots in Ancient Rus, just like the first attempts to combat it. For many centuries, authorities tried to deal with the problem by creating various laws and prisons, but this proved completely useless. As history has... shown, stopping the development of crime turned out to be impossible. Before you is a book that will provide answers to many questions. From it you will learn: – The history of the fight against crime in Ancient Rus, the emergence of the bandit order; – Who stood guard over order in the province of the Moscow kingdom; – The most high-profile and vivid cases of the 16th-17th centuries; – Notable gangs of Pre-Revolutionary Russia that left a significant mark in history; – The life stories of two legends of the criminal world.