Из воспоминаний жандарма

The author of the memoirs is General VD Novitsky, a well-known political detective in Russia in the second half of the 19th century. From the position of a professional guardian, who is privy to many hidden and little-known circumstances, he describes the key moments in the confrontation between the gendarmes and the revolutionary movement - from the era of "going to the people" to the Socialist-Revolutionary terror and the deployment of social democratic propaganda.
Many underground figures and their opponents are presented in an unconventional perspective; The evolution of the methods of political investigation is reflected, up to the folding of the system of permanent provocation - the main weapon of the Okhrana at the beginning of the 20th century.
Foreword by A. A. Levandovsky.