Boris Akunin: "Anti-corrosion formula"

“As is their custom, Pereverzin was offered a deal: bear witness a little, and for that we will not touch you. Continue to live for your own pleasure, a free man.

When Pereverzin refused, the investigators were at first terribly surprised, and then terribly offended. They drew up the case, and our fair, completely independent court gave the unreasonable one a hard time - so that others would be discouraged.

Vladimir Pereverzin spent more than seven years in prisons and camps. Yes, not like Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, but without any public attention, without first-class lawyers. So to speak, on a general basis. He served from bell to bell, without concessions. Finally came out. To a broken trough. With a lot of problems. Aged. But at the same time deeply convinced that he acted in the only possible way."