Paralytics of Power and Epileptics of Revolution

The next volume of historical investigations by Alexander Zvyagintsev takes us back to the times of the Russian Empire - the reader will witness the emergence and establishment of the domestic system of power and governance under Peter the Great, the activities of Pavel Yaguzhinsky and Gavriil Derzhavin, and the crisis of the monarchy during the times of Pyotr Stolypin and Ivan Shcheglovitov, whose words about the "reluctant struggle of the paralytics of power against the epileptics of revolution" proved to be a key but ignored warning for their era.

Like in all the books of the series, the material is characterized by maximum completeness and objectivity, and the portraits of historical figures, whether they are representatives of power or opposition figures (such as Ivan Kalyayev and Vera Zasulich), are presented in all their complexity and contradictions…