Essays on the Criminal World of Tsarist Russia

The memoirs of the former chief of the Moscow Detective Police and head of all criminal investigation in the Russian Empire, Arkady Franz evich Koshko, are one of the best testimonies about pre-revolutionary Russia. This edition includes three volumes of memoirs under the overall title “Sketches of the Criminal World of Tsarist Russia,” consisting of short, dynamic stories. In them, the author describes in detail his most high-profile investigations.