About the book: 2022 / The next volume of historical investigations by Alexander Zvyagintsev takes us to the times of the Russian Empire: the reader will witness the emergence and formation of the domestic system of power and management under Peter the Great, the activities of Pavel Yaguzhinsky and Gabriel Derzhavin and the crisis of the monarchy during the time of Peter Stolypin and Ivan Shcheglovitov, whose words about the “reluctant struggle of the paralytics of power with the epileptics of the revolution” turned out to be a key but ignored warning for their era. As in all books series, the material is characterized by maximum completeness and objectivity, and portraits of historical figures, be they government officials or oppositionists (such as Ivan Kalyaev and Vera Zasulich), are presented in all their complexity and inconsistency…