Catherine eagles. State ranks. Demkin Andrey

The book of Andrei Demkin is dedicated to the closest associates of Catherine II - those whose biographies best illustrate the violent Russian XVIII century. But there is one feature: of the number of numerous figures of that time, the author chooses a person who showed themselves primarily in the field of civil service. Large diplomats were N. I. Panin and A. A. Bezborodko. The secretary duties were performed under the empress and possessed the enormous influence of G. I. Teplov, A. V. Khrapovitsky and I.P. Elagin, and the latter also headed the palace economy and court theaters. As outstanding administrators, the prosecutors of the Senate A. A. Vyazemsky and A. N. Samoilov, the governors Ya. E. Sivers and M. N. Krechetnikov remained in the history of the administrators. The author not only retells their biographies, but leads, along with well -known facts, information about their life and activity, only recently entered the scientific circulation, and does it brightly, emotionally, entertaining.

Andrey Demkin is a leading scientific employee of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences.