Catherine eagles. State ranks

The book of Andrei Demkin is dedicated to the closest associates of Catherine II - those whose biographies best illustrate the violent Russian XVIII century. But there is one feature: of the number of numerous figures of that time, the author chooses a person who showed themselves primarily in the field of civil service. Large diplomats were N.I. Panin and A.A. Bezborodko. They performed secretary duties under the empress and had the enormous influence of G.I. Teplov, A.V. Khrapovitsky and I.P. Elagin, and the latter also headed the palace economy and court theaters. How outstanding administrators remained in the history of the prosecutors of the Senate A.A. Vyazemsky and A.N. Samoilov, governors Ya.E. Sivers and M.N. Krechetnikov. The author not only retells their biographies, but leads, along with well -known facts, information about their life and activity, only recently entered the scientific circulation, and does it brightly, emotionally, entertaining