Collection of popular science articles by the famous historian, associate professor of the history department of Moscow State University Andrei Anatolyevich Levandovsky includes various essays on the problems of the socio-political history of Russia of the 19th century, written in the late 1980s - 1990s. Some of these articles were published in various magazines, while some remained unpublished until the publication of this book. On its pages you can find a publicist-populist A.N. Engelhardt, rector of Moscow University S.N. Trubetskoy, historian and public figure T.N. Granovsky, raznochintsy and terrorists of post-reform Russia, opposing figures of political investigation, Russian emperors and their entourage... For professional historians and a wide range of readers.