About the book: 2012 / Fairy tales are a reflection of the people’s subconscious. The famous journalist and writer Valery Panyushkin, with the assistance of Pepeliaev Group lawyers, searches for the roots of the Russian legal system in fairy tales and discovers a lot of interesting things: no one believes in justice, the elder and strong are right, old good things are quickly forgotten, a child is not a full-fledged person, the most absurd, sincere a confession is counted as evidence of guilt, the logic of the prosecution is lame, the principles of extradition are written anew every time, the rules of inheritance are complicated beyond belief - in a word, it is very reminiscent of our current reality. But it all started, it turns out, from Koshchei the Immortal and Vasilisa the Beautiful. The book is a must-read for all people with extraordinary thinking, capable of seeing the unexpected in the familiar, as well as for everyone who wants to understand how the Russian brain works.