Petersburg Slums (set of 2 books)

Vsevolod Vladimirovich Krestovsky (1840 - 1895) – writer and literary critic, gifted storyteller and journalist.
The novel "Petersburg Slums" – a bestseller of Russian literature, one of the first addresses to the criminal world. Read about St. Petersburg in the 19th century, with its dazzling palaces and embankments, dirty backyards, night shelters, and prisons. In an adventurous plot, the fates of heroes from different social groups are expertly intertwined: princes and ladies of high society, immoral women, thieves, and murderers.
A series "Petersburg Mysteries" (1994-1998) was filmed based on the novel.