Bastrykin A.I. Collected works

The chief investigator of Russia was admitted to the Writers' Union

In early June, it became known that the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, was officially admitted to the Union of Writers of Russia. Bastrykin is an incredibly prolific author. "Medusa" briefly tells what is known about his books.

Bastrykin is not the only writer in the Russian government. Almost every high -ranking Russian official in his life published at least one book. Politicians write scientific works, popular science and art books, publish memories. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev write poetry. Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky released many books in large circulations and is also part of the Union of Writers of Russia.

Bastrykin is the author of dozens of books. How many books Alexander Bastrykin wrote in his life is quite difficult to calculate. In February 2016, Russian Newspaper wrote : “But he [Bastrykin] still manages to find time to write scientific books. Only the listing of his copyright works on urgent issues of state and law, international law, criminal process and forensics will be tired of listing. There are one and a half hundred of them. "

Bastrykin writes not only scientific books. The head of the TFR is the author of several popular science books and textbooks. Bastrykin also published books about the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and politics Lyudmila Shvetsova - he told about this at a meeting with members of the Writers' Union. True, very few are known about books - in Wikipedia, without a reference to information sources, it is mentioned that they were published in 2015 in Moscow; There are no other data about Bastrykin's books. You can’t buy them, the circulation is unknown.

There are many mistakes in Bastrykin's most famous book. In 2004, one of Bastrykin was released - “Hand signs. Dactyloscopy. " The advantages of this book were also noted at a meeting in the Union of Writers. In 2007, a review was published in the Ukrainian scientific journal, in which numerous inaccuracies and mistakes of the author were versed. For example, Bastrykin actually ascribes to the American writer Mark Twain the honor of the discovery of dactyloscopy, although it is known that he only first described the meaning of fingerprints for a wide range of readers. But inaccuracies are not the main drawback of the book.

Bastrykin’s book is a lot of borrowings. From the review of 2007, for the first time, it became known that in the book “Signs of the Hand. Dactyloscopy ”a significant part of the text literally repeats the 1975 book - the“ Age of Forensics ”by the German writer Jurgen Torvald. In 2013, the Dissernet society studied Bastrykin’s book in more detail and found that the author borrowed not only from Torvald’s book, but also from the work of the Irish writer Anthony Summers “The Empire of the FBI: myths, secrets, intrigues”. There is a third source that is briefly mentioned in the 2007 review - this is the translation of the German book by Robert Gaundl “Dactyloscopy and other methods of criminal equipment in the investigation of crimes”, published in Moscow in 1927.