About the book: 2008 / "Notes" of Konstantin Ivanovich Fischer - an actual Privy Councilor, senator - are brilliant, accurate, ironic sketches of bureaucratic Russia in the 19th century. A bright gallery of portraits of sovereigns and their nobles: some who served with honor, but more of them were bribe-takers, embezzlers and fools, who sometimes made a career solely by trimming feathers…