Detective Petersburg: detective legends

Bandit Petersburg, so they began to call Northern Venice, after the release of the series of the same name. And more seriously, the criminal St. Petersburg-Leningrad-Petersburg is such an interweaving of fates, an era, “easy” money and human passions. . The intensity is such that you often confuse real people and literary and film characters.

For example, one of the legendary personalities of the 19th century was Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin - the genius of the Russian detective.

In 1866, at the office of the police department of St. Petersburg, the first small detective unit was created under the leadership of I. D. Putilin.

It had 22 detectives. So the St. Petersburg detective unit became the prototype of the criminal investigation service in Russia. In the second half of the XIX century, Putilin was a man-legend, a true defender of people and a thunderstorm for criminals. Having begun service in the police from the lowest position, this man, thanks to his hard work and natural talent, soon became the first head of the St. Petersburg detective police, and no significant case in those years was not investigated without his participation or his leadership.

One of his principles of conducting the investigation was: I must tell you that I used to have a habit: near the place where the crime was committed, people push and listen. Sometimes an empty word leads to a trace.

Indeed, as the equally famous detective, by the name of Holmes, used to say: To make assumptions without knowing all the circumstances of the case is the biggest mistake. This may influence further thinking.”

But real life, of course, is much more complicated.

Well, I refuse and continue to prepare material for the excursion "Pulp St. Petersburg-Leningrad: literary and real".