The Sukhovo-Kobylin Case
Pries, Anne / Krok-Paszkowska, Ania![The Sukhovo-Kobylin Case](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/274/2741586/CHSBZCOP032741586.jpg)
The Sukhovo-Kobylin case is a representative example of nineteenth-century Russian jurisprudence which did not allow persons suspected of a crime to defend themselves but did allow judicial institutions to accept bribes. The story of the case reads like a murder mystery, with all the ingredients of a real thriller: the main character is a rich nobleman with two mistresses. A French milliner was the victim of a gruesome murder on a winter eveni...