There are legends and movies about con artists who treat their criminal “profession” like an art form. Christopher Rocancourt, impostor and swindler, managed to get into the highest circles of the rich and famous and make a good living at their expense. In France, he introduced himself as Prince Golitsyn, in Hollywood - the son of actress Sophia Loren, nephew of designer Oscar de la Renta or producer Dino de Laurentiis, in the Hamptons - Rockefeller, heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune. He claimed Bill Clinton, Jean-Claude Van Damme and the Sultan of Brunei among his close friends. Dolph Lundgren's and Robert De Niro's private phone numbers could be found in his address book.

In the spring of 1882, more than 140 years ago, a bullet to the back of the head put an end to the career of the notorious bank and train robber Jesse James. This moment made him famous in eternity: thus, from 1921 to 2017, Jesse James became the main character or a cameo in 31 movies.

July 1944. Riga. An unremarkable man walked into an atelier in Riga and ordered a leather coat. Many rear officers of the Red Army and NKVD wore them at that time.

This event entered all textbooks on criminalistics as the most daring and unexpected in the history of robberies of the XX century. In one of the hot July days of 1908, a small group of three policemen appeared in the port of Baku. They proceeded to the steamer “Nikolai I”, which was about to set sail and demanded to let them on board under the guise of checking the documents of the personnel.