Daily life of the St. Petersburg detective police

The 2nd revised and expanded edition of the popular history of the St. Petersburg detective police, which includes dozens of new, exclusive, previously unpublished photographs. We - Nikolai Svechin, Valery Vvedensky and Ivan Pogonin - write historical detective stories. Our... literary heroes investigate crimes in the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. And in order to more accurately describe that era, before we sit down to write another story or novel, we study sources: memoirs and diaries, newspapers and magazines, reference books and reports, scientific works of those years and fiction, archival documents. However, not all information known to us can be “packaged” into the format of a work of fiction. Therefore, for the time being, many interesting facts remained in our notebooks. And then the idea came to write a popular science book: to tell about the history of the St. Petersburg detective police, about how they looked for criminals in the capital in the old days, about the fate of the tsar’s detectives and the cases they solved...