Kazusy imperii - Zviagintsev A.

The bear at the judicial table, Emperor Paul I, throwing lots when choosing a prosecutor general, the inhabitants of the sharp, dismantling the rubble of investigative cases - these and other curiosities, the reality of which is hard to believe ... But the history of the Russian Empire also developed from such incidents. Absurdity and chechard in the professional life of smart and educated guardians of the state. And not only - sometimes simpletons or fools, but malicious treasuries and samodurs ... All these amusing and sometimes instructive cases gathered a well-known connoisseur of the life of the highest Russian light - the writer Alexander Zvyagintsev, who gave many years to the service of Themis.