Compiling editors V.P. Orlenko, M.V. Vilkova.  — The Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum and Heritage Site. — Moscow, 2024 —356 p., illustrated, hardcover. —1000 copies. ISBN 978-5-88678-414-5

Timed to coincide with a major exhibition at the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the catalogue is dedicated to one of the most complex and dramatic periods in Russian history – the era of palace coups that replaced Peter the Great's reforms. The publication gives the most complete picture of the participants in the palace conspiracies and their hidden 'sources' that influenced the course of events, including foreign interference. The story of the political power struggle in the 18th century is told through authentic material evidence of the period – costumes, ceremonial and hunting arms, regalia, portraits and engravings, coins, orders and documents belonging to the direct participants of these events.

The publication includes two introductory articles and five sections, covering the period from the accession of Empress Catherine I to the throne in 1725, following the death of her husband Peter the Great, to the last palace coup in the Russian Empire in 1801, when Emperor Paul I was assassinated by conspirators at Mikhailovsky Castle.