About the book: 2004 / You are holding in your hands the first book of the "Historical Detective" series - Oleg Suvorov's novel "Fatal Circumstances", in which, against the backdrop of real events, truly unfold improbable stories. How is the murder of Alexander II and the suicide of the young daughter of an official, whose virginity a wealthy St. Petersburg banker tried to buy, connected? A chain of amazing and fatal circumstances that Makar Aleksandrovich Gursky brilliantly investigates! The novel is based on several true crime stories from the practice of the famous lawyer A.F. Koni.