Detective, Find the Thief! Or the Most Famous Bandits of Russia

If someone thinks that the Nightingale-Robber is a character from Slavic mythology, they’re greatly mistaken. He is the real “workman of a knife and an axe”—and almost the progenitor of all kinds of killers who made a living on Russian roads. At least that is what Alexander Bushkov claims—someone who has never, up to now, been caught in banal fantasy. What was happening in Rus is hard to describe! By the number of famous robbers and the scale with which they acted, we could easily compete with European countries. Novgorod ушкуйники robbed everyone on the Volga; the Baltic squadron of Ivan the Terrible was commanded by the Danish pirate Karsten Rode; and the famous Prince Alexander Menshikov sent money from the Russian treasury into offshore accounts with impunity. Read the most gripping saga of your people’s criminal past!