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The new incredible adventures of the English historian in Moscow could be the subtitle of Akunyin's new novel. Because the adventures are truly breathtaking, and while he is unraveling the threads of a series of murders, Nicholas himself, now known as Nikolasz Fandorin, can only thank his mystical luck for staying alive in the almost incomprehensible, complicated world of today's Moscow. He is working on a computer game, the protagonist of which is Mitridat, the brilliant boy who saves II. Tsarina Catherine from a conspiracy. And as we have become accustomed to in Akunyin's novels: history magically comes alive: suddenly we are there in the 18th century. century, in the palace of the big-blooded tsarina, and then on the roads of endless Russia, where our hero escapes with a beautiful noble lady. But the hot-headed conspirators are plotting revenge, and what could a small child, no matter how smart, do against them? But then one of Nicholas's ancestors appears, the noble-hearted but hard-fisted hermit Danyila Fondorin. he stumbles through life, mostly he doesn't understand what is happening to him (and Russians are really not easy to understand), but miraculously he always finds a solution. Because in his cold-blooded English way, Nikolasz is also brilliant and noble-hearted: a real hero!!