About the book: 1965 / Ivan Vasilyevich Parfentyev was born in the Moscow region, into a peasant family. He went from a trainee in the criminal investigation department to the head of the Moscow criminal investigation department, from a sergeant to a third-rank police commissioner. He devoted thirty years to the fight against criminal crime. “The Past in the Present” is the first book by I. V. Parfentyev. His articles and notes were published in the magazine “Young Guard”, in the newspapers “Moskovskaya Pravda”, “Evening Moscow”, “Trud”, “Moskovsky Komsomolets”. Ivan Vasilyevich has been a member of the CPSU since 1939. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Red Star, medals and the badge “Honored Worker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs».