By the highest command. Penzensky Alexander Mikhailovich

1911, the end of the hot summer, St. Petersburg. The head of the capital's criminal police Vladimir Gavrilovich Filippov, together with his assistant Alexander Pavlovich Sviridov, is investigated by the strange suicide of the teacher of the University of Sergei Zimin. A series of murders of people associated with Zimin is woven into the investigation, and the political views of both Zimin himself and his killed acquaintances pop up. These views are completely unreliable. But one of the witnesses characterizes Zimin on the other hand. According to him, Zimin is a provocateur and an agent of the guard who knocked down his lover and her brother to kill no less, but Peter Stolypin himself!

detectives take up the matter, but the further it becomes more confusing, the more confusing After all, the interests of very high -ranking individuals interfere with the game.

The novel is based on real events.