Notes of the deceased. Telitsyn V.L.

Ivan Liprandi is a legendary personality, he is a participant (army officer) of several wars that Russia waged over the first three decades of the XIX century (marked by orders and personal weapons for courage), a military intelligence officer, the commander of partisan detachments operating in the enemy lines , an employee of the special services who opened the conspiracy of M.V. Petrashevsky, a scientist, who was well versed in the intricacies of not only geopolitical problems in the Balkans and in the southwestern regions of the Russian Empire, but also in the most difficult issues of the relations of the state and the Old Believers. And also - a famous Breter (a participant of almost a dozen duels), and also a friend of A.S. Pushkin and A.S. Griboedova and the enemy A.I. Herzen and N.G. Chernyshevsky, and also - a historian, publicist, owner of a richest book collection, which the leaders of the Western European countries dreamed of getting, and, most importantly, the author of the diary that led throughout his long life (he lived for almost 90 years), and in which everything was reflected in the reflection of everything Events and his life and history of the country of almost the entire 19th century.

And this book is about this.