Forty years among robbers and killers. Putilin I.D.

Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin (1830–1893)-the legend of the domestic detect, the head of the detective police of St. Petersburg, who had fought criminals in the city on the Neva for almost forty years. During this time, he revealed hundreds of things, many of which became widely known, and he considered his best investigations those that he managed to reveal “exclusively by logical conclusion.”

Putilin used subtle psychological techniques in communicating with witnesses And by criminals, he thoroughly studied the places of crimes. It was he who introduced into the practice of the Russian police that they would later call the “work under the guise”: he went to evil places, made acquaintances in the criminal world, adopted the images and manner of the speech of criminals.

He spoke about the most interesting crimes on the pages of his memoirs “Forty years among robbers and killers”, which he wrote shortly before his death.