"Criminal and Judicial Stories" is a series of historical and forensic books.... On February 5, 1878, Vera Zasulich came to an appointment with the St. Petersburg mayor Trepov and seriously wounded him with two shots from a revolver in the stomach. She faced 15 to 20 years in prison, but the jury fully acquitted her. The jury's acquittal was influenced, among other things, by the position of the chairman of the court, Anatoly Koni, who after that fell into prolonged disgrace...