Wonderful eccentrics and originals

“Wonderful eccentrics and originals” (1898) - the last book of the famous journalist and local historian M.I. Pylyaeva, who is well familiar to readers from exciting books “Travel” on “Old Moscow” and “Old Petersburg”.
From this book, the reader learns about the oddities of Minister Arakcheev and the eccentric antics of Decembrist Lunin, the “Russian trace” in the case of the missing necklace of Queen Maria Antoinette and the search for treasures hidden by the famous rebel Emelyan Pugachev, and more about much more. The diverse characters - from the most famous to the author left in history only thanks to the car caring pen - will show what they laughed at, what the people of that time were fond of and what were surprised and what were surprised