Life and deeds of prominent Russian lawyers. Ups and downs

How did political and social time conflicts affect the fate and career of prominent Russian lawyers? Their biographies are interesting and educational pages of history not only by Russian jurisprudence, but also the history of the country of the XVII-XX centuries. The heroes of documentary essays in a period of their lives entered the clinch with the authorities. And many and at all turned out to face the face with justice and the inexorable verdict of the fatal peripetics of their era. The book of selected biographies is written on the basis of rare archival materials and other low-cost sources who have studied the author for many years. A. Zvyagintsev about forty years old devoted to the ministry of the femide, a lot of real jurisprudence at the Niva. It is widely known to readers as the author not only of documentary works, but also is plenty of modern prose