About the book: 2013 / A sorcerer or magician, an expert on human nature, able to read thoughts, heal both body and soul, was himself subject to human weaknesses... The son of a modest cloth merchant from Palermo, gambler, drunkard, duelist, forger of false wills, grew up to become the formidable and mysterious Count Cagliostro. How did this happen, what kind of personality influenced his fate? The famous Russian writer-historian Evgeniy Salias is trying to solve the mystery of the greatest intriguer of the 18th century who visited our country during the reign of Catherine II.