A historian in power

The article is devoted to the analysis of the book by the St. Petersburg historian Inna Evgenyevna Barykina, the main character of which is the famous political figure of the era of Alexander II and Alexander III, Count Dmitry Andreevich Tolstoy, who for several decades headed the most important departments of Tsarist Russia - the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Public Education and served as the chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod. The author notes the serious scientific level of the monograph, based on a wide range of sources, and the extraordinary character of Count Tolstoy, one of the most prominent representatives of the autocratic bureaucracy, is noted.