The German artist Peter von Hess performed in the forties of last century by the special order of Tsar Nikolay I of Russia twelve canvases describing different episodes of the Patriotic war. All these canvases are in the Winter Palace in St.Petersburg. Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (29 July 1792 – 4 April 1871) was a German painter, known for historic paintings, especially of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence. Peter von Hess initially received training from his father Carl Ernst Christoph Hess...

BOOK ONE CHAPTER 1 - Never Talk with Strangers CHAPTER 2 - Pontius Pilate CHAPTER 3 - The Seventh Proof CHAPTER 4 - The Chase CHAPTER 5 - There were Doings at Griboedov’s CHAPTER 6 - Schizophrenia, as was Said CHAPTER 7 - A Naughty Apartment CHAPTER 8 - The Combat between the Professor and the Poet CHAPTER 9 - Koroviev’s Stunts CHAPTER 10 - News From Yalta CHAPTER 11 - Ivan Splits in Two CHAPTER 12 - Black Magic and Its Exposure CHAPTER 13 - The Hero Enters CHAPTER 14 - Glory to the Cock! CHAPTER 15 - Nikanor Ivanovich’s Dream CHAPTER 16 - The Execution CHAPTER...