About the book: year / "Several years ago, a very amusing colored table was published, showing the journey and fate of paper from the lower police and judicial authorities to the very top, and explaining visually how many ordeals the unfortunate woman must go through, how many individuals invested with greater or lesser power she must meet, what zigzags and curvilinear paths she had to describe up and down, what an exorbitant amount of time she had to spend on traveling from the county and zemstvo institution to the chamber , from the chamber to the metropolitan institutions and back, in order to finally convey to the patient petitioner a decision or just some result, which often caused another paper to embark on the same endless journey, ending in the same sad outcome...” The work is given in the pre-reform alphabet.