How Lykov did not become a general. Svechin N.

The collection of stories of the famous author of historical detectives Nikolai Svechin included well -known stories and one new story - all from the cycle of investigations by Alexei Lykov.

If you think that the art of an escort is a phenomenon of modernity, then you are mistaken. They were owned by women back in the time of the empire, in which even the Grand Duke was not alien to carnal pleasures. The intrigue associated with his mistress formed the basis of the story. How to be a woman if she has two lovers, but you need to choose one? Perhaps the only way out is to disappear from among the living...

Nikolai Svechin is the author of more than thirty historical detectives from the time of the Russian Empire, the Russian Detective Prize laureate and one of the most famous researchers of the history of the police of our country. His books are not just a fascinating reading of crimes, but also a unique material according to which you can study the history of Russia at the end of the 19th - early XX centuries. All subjects are checked in the archives, and the detective Lykov absorbed the features of the most famous investigators of the era.