Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the Republic of Georgia in 1956. Akunin published his first detective novel in 1998 and has gone on to become one of the most widely read authors in Russia. He is the author of the Erast Fandorin novels and the Sister Pelagia series.
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Naive young Masha Mironova arrives in Moscow at the turn of the century with a modest inheritance and a determination to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing. As soon as she alights in Moscow, she becomes Columbine, a reckless and daring young woman wi... SEE MORE