Boris Akunin

This book is in Russian language. The first book of the series on Russian history. The Prehistory of the Future Russian State: The Kievan and Post-Kievan Periods (9th-13th centuries) The books in this series are richly illustrated and contain numerous drawings, portraits, maps, and photographs. "The land we call Ancient Rus' was so different from Russia of the post-Mongol era that, across the centuries, it appears to us like a vanished, legendary Atlantis... Did Rurik really exist? Did the Slavs truly invite the Varangians? Did Oleg actually nail his shield to the gates of Constantinople?" Boris Akunin addresses his history of the Fatherland to a wide audience: to readers who are curious to know (or, together with the author, eagerly puzzle out) how things really were. And to attempt to understand what in our thousand-year-old state is right, what is not, and why.

From Russia's bestselling and most celebrated crime fiction writer, Boris Akunin, The Coronation casts Fandorin in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation of Tsar Nicholas IIBoris Akunin has been hailed as Russia's answer to both Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his beloved Fandorin mystery series. After five years spent abroad building up a business as something of a private investigator, the handsome, stuttering Fandorin is back in Moscow--and in for a case that entangles him with the highest echelons of Romanov royalty.Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow with three of his children for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, who is fated to become the last Emperor of Russia. During an afternoon stroll in the park, Georgii's daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandits, only to be rescued by an elegant gentleman and his Japanese sidekick. The passing heroes introduce themselves as Erast Petrovich Fandorin and Masa, but panic ensues when the party realizes that four-year-old Mikhail has been snatched in the confusion.A ransom letter arrives from an international criminal demanding the handover of the Count Orlov, an enormous diamond on the royal scepter which is due to play a part in the coronation. Can the gentleman detective find Mikhail in time? The Coronation is a fantastically entertaining and deftly plotted take on the hostage novel, not to be missed.

CRIMEA, 1914 When the Tzar's head of security is assassinated, Erast Fandorin is called to investigate: the killer has been overheard mentioning a 'black city' so Fandorin and his trusty companion, Masa, head to Baku, the burgeoning Russian capital of oil. But from the moment they arrive in the city - a hotbed of corruption and greed by the Caspian Sea - they realise someone is watching their every move, and they will stop at nothing to derail their investigation. Having suffered a brutal attack and with Masa's life hanging by a thread, Fandorin is forced to rely on the help of an unexpected new ally, and he begins to suspect the plot might be part of something larger - and much more sinister. With war brewing in the Balkans and Europe's empires struggling to contain the threat of revolution, Fandorin must try and solve his most difficult case yet - before time runs out.

From the writer who invented the popular Russian crime novel, Boris Akunin, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero Erast FandorinSince the publication of The Winter Queen, a New York Times Notable Book and the first mystery featuring Erast Fandorin, Boris Akunin's historical mystery series has become a worldwide sensation, selling millions of copies and propelling Akunin into the ranks of Russia's most widely read contemporary novelists. The first new Fandorin novel available to an American audience in a decade, The State Counsellor tests the handsome diplomat-detective's guile and integrity like no mystery before. Russia, 1891. The new governor-general of Siberia has been secreted away on a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow. A blizzard rages outside as a mustachioed official climbs aboard near the city; with his trademark stutter, he introduces himself as State Counsellor Erast Fandorin. He then thrusts a dagger inscribed with the initials CG into the governor-general's heart and, tearing off his mustache, escapes out the carriage window. The head of the Department of Security soon shows up at the real Fandorin's door and arrests him for murder. The only way to save his reputation is to find CG--and the government mole who is feeding the group information. Can Fandorin survive corruption among his fellow officials, the fearlessness of an unknown enemy, and the advances of a sultry young nihilist with his morals intact? The State Counsellor is a colorful entertainer from a master of the sly historical romp.

Erast Fandorin - 'A popular hero to equal Sherlock Holmes and James Bond' (The Times)' - returns in the penultimate installment of the hugely popular historical mystery series.

A stunning and epic finale to the series, pitting Fandorin against both Ninjas and terrorists on the Trans-Siberian Express!

Akunin goes noir as Fandorin meets bandits!

The daring Russian sleuth Erast Fandorin takes on two cunning adversaries. From the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.

Dashing hero Erast Fandorin returns for another intriguing Russian crime caper, from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.

Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow, and he just can't seem to keep out of trouble... The fourth novel in the bestselling crime series from the author of THE WINTER QUEEN.

Fandorin returns in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II.

This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, the famous gentleman sleuth. Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case. Brilliant, young, and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy backstreets of London in his hunt for the conspirators behind this mysterious death. 'An absolute delight. Think Tolstoy writing James Bond with the logical rigour of Sherlock Holmes. A hoot' Guardian

The third Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

When he hears that one of his aunt's rare white bulldogs has been poisoned, Monsignore Mitrofanij, the orthodox bishop of a remote Russian province on the Volga, enlists the assistance of the resourceful Sister Pelagia to take on a complex morass of spurned lovers, canine conspiracy, political intrigue, greed, and knitting to uncover the culprit. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Roman o shestidesjatykh godakh, o bessilii Slova i o nauke starosti. V etom romane (i esche v odnom romane, sprjatannom vnutri pervogo) Ljudi Slova i ljudi Dela ekzamenujut svoj sejdzitsu, sokrytyj sredi listev. Ponjat, chto takoe sejdzitsu i est li on v vas, vy smozhete, lish proshelestev listjami-listami etoj knigi.

Roman o pjatidesjatykh godakh i o psikhologicheskom diagnostirovanii. Posle obzhigajuschego ognja, ledjanykh zamorozkov i sploshnykh pokhoron klimat v Strane Sovetov nachinaet smjagchatsja. Samoe vremja zadumatsja o schaste. Ego universalnyj retsept, "egokhimicheskiij" algoritm vyveden i protestirovan na stranitsakh etogo romana.

Roman o vojne i o pravilnom vospitanii detej. Po zhanru etot roman - pedagogicheskaja poema. Vremja i mesto dlja vospitatelnykh eksperimentov, pravda, malo podkhodjaschee, no kogda eto ostanavlivalo blagorodnykh bezumtsev?

Roman-utopija o tridtsatykh godakh i o prekrasnom buduschem Rossii. V samyj strashnyj god sovetskoj istorii katakombnye mechtateli pridumyvajut idealnoe ustrojstvo dlja svoej izvechno problemnoj rodiny. Chem glubzhe i temnee propast, tem jarche sijajut nad nej zvezdy...

Roman o grazhdanskoj vojne i o smysle zhizni. Est li v zhizni smysl, radi chego stoit zhit, po kakoj shkale sleduet otsenivat kachestvo lichnosti i obschestva - vot prostye voprosy, na kotorye pytaetsja najti otvet etot roman. Eto pervyj roman tsikla "Semejnyj albom".

"Egoproza" - zhanr, izobretennyj avtorom dlja naibolshej estestvennosti povestvovanija. Eto soedinenie esse, belletristiki i dokumentalnoj prozy. Tema pervoj "egoprozaicheskoj" knigi - metamorfozy, kotorye proiskhodjat s chelovekom i v osobennosti s pisatelem v opredeljajuschie momenty zhizni.