Artemii Volynskii - Kurukin Igor' Vladimirovich

One of the 'birds of Petrov's nest' Artemy Volynsky went from an ordinary soldier to the first minister of the empire. Descendant of the hero of the Battle of Kulikov participated in the Battle of Poltava, was a royal courier and prisoner of a Turkish prison, a combat general and an authorized ambassador, the capital's courtier and governor on the outskirts, a horse-breeder and showmaker, led a royal hunt and staged an unprecedented sight - the wedding of a jester in the 'Ice House'. He was repeatedly under investigation for bribery and arbitrariness, and after his death became a symbol of the struggle against 'German domination'. Based on archival materials, the book of Dr. Igor Kurukin tells about the fate of one of the brightest figures of the Annin reign, the cabinet-minister, who made up the projects of the restructuring of public administration, the nominee Biron, who decided to compete with a powerful patron and put his head on the ground.