You don't know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.

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In 1877, Erast Fandorin finds himself at the Bulgarian front in a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, where he assists a Russian woman who is risking her