My teacher Philby. The history of the confrontation between the British and domestic special services, told with humor

The history of a criminal investigation in Russia stores dozens of names of brilliant detectives who literally performed miracles.
Here is the detective Gavrilo Yakovlevich Yakovlev, who became a celebrity during the time of Alexander I, endowed with an instinctive sense of recognition of criminals in the crowd of one appearance of them. Here is the famous Moscow detective Poles, who was called "nugget" during the time of Nicholas I. Or the bailiff of Khotinsky, who knew all Moscow thieves and addresses of all brothels. And what can we say about Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin, the legend of the Russian detective police, who was called the Russian Sherlock Holmes!
The brilliant Alexander Bushkov tells about these and other amazing detectives of tsarist Russia so naturally, easily and in detail that it seems that he knew them all personally, and caught criminals with them