Mysterious personalities. Collection. Karnovich E.

In the series of "Secrets of History", a collection is released, united by a common topic. Among all the peoples, at all times were people who left a mark in history, but their personality remained a mystery to contemporaries and descendants. Stories about such people - spies, adventurers, criminals, hoaxes - very fertile ground for creativity, therefore it is not surprising that stories about mysterious personalities arise here and here, exciting the imagination of readers. In the collection under the obvious name “mysterious personalities” we combined two, in our opinion, the most worthy works dedicated to the indicated topic. Friedrich Bulau - a teacher of law, professor of practical philosophy and policy of Leipzig University, has published many scientific books, and at the end of his life was carried away by the affairs of the long time past days. He carefully collected materials on the history of Europe, the result of his work was the thorough work of “mysterious personalities and mysterious stories”. He also writes about the adventurer Brisasier, who was trying to crank the scam and pass himself for the son of the French king, and about the Duke of De La Forsa, Marshal of France, who, during Bartholomew’s night, lost his father and older brother, he himself was saved, pretending to be killed. He analyzes in detail the criminal case of witches in the Italian Tyrol of the 17th century, analyzing the testimony of the defendants, the arguments of the defense and evidence of the prosecution. His heroes are the chief marshal of France Maurice Saxon, the secret agent Shevalier d'Eon, who appeared at the Russian court in his skirt, the Prussian spy, post -director Johann Wagner, adventurer and adventurer Duchess Elizabeth Kingston, defender of Orthodoxy and an irreconcilable wrestling archimandrite Fotiy and Masons. His powerful opponent, Mason, chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod Prince Alexander Nikolaevich Golitsyn. Karnovich allows you to look at the history of Russia from an unexpected side...