History often identifies Heroes and Robbers.The British have Robin Hood.We have Stepan Razin.It contains the stories of Russia's most famous robbers, dating back long before the era of Ivan the Terrible.Of course, without a time machine, we will never be able to determine exactly when thieves, robbers, pirates and other criminal elements got started on our Russian land.The magnificent narrator Alexander Bushkov gathered information on this topic bit by bit from inaccessible and little-known sources. And it turned out to be a unique book, a one-of-a-kind Story of the most famous robbers of Russia.And on this list — believe your eyes! — Alexander Menshikov, the only duke in Russia, Peter's favorite, the highest—ranking person after the emperor is a thief and robber.There is also an exhaustive explanation of when and why the ordinary leader of the robber gang, Stepan Razin, was called an ideological fighter against tsarism.And why the Don Cossacks sinned by robbing Russian border villages.And why is it only in Russia that crimes against God, the Church and the tsar were considered "especially grave" and punished much more harshly than ordinary criminality.We read, we are shocked. We read again, learn, think, compare... you can trust Bushkov.