Bandit Petersburg

Andrei Konstantinov (1963–2023) — Russian journalist, writer, screenwriter, publicist, social activist, founder and editor-in-chief of the "Agency for Journalistic Investigations." A recognized master of the crime genre, one of the leading experts on crime in the post-Soviet space. The author of not only the most popular crime novels such as "Journalist," "Thief," "Composer," "Specialist," "Tula – Tokarev," "Rotta," "Own – Stranger," "If anyone hears me," and others, but also non-fiction publications. Among them is the textbook "Journalistic Investigation: The History of the Method and Modern Practice," which reveals the main questions of journalistic investigation methodology, and the author's main documentary study — the book "Bandit Petersburg," which Andrei Konstantinov wrote and supplemented over the course of thirty years.
"...in some sense, the book ‘Bandit Petersburg’ for me — is an endless literary-research hard labor, during which it becomes increasingly difficult each year to find the strength to continue the work... And yet, it seems to me, the topic of ‘Bandit Petersburg,’ while no longer so ‘speculatively relevant’ as it was in the nineties of the last century, remains interesting... The stories of many characters are not finished, and thus — not fully told. So the book is still not complete."
A. Konstantinov