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160 relations: A Hero of Our Time, Achilles, Agatha Christie, Aleksandr Kuprin, Alexander Griboyedov, Alexander Pushkin, Andrew Bromfield, Anna Karenina, Antique, Anton Yelchin, Arsène Lupin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Assassination, Azazel, Bel Ami, Boris Akunin, Box office, Census, Central Partnership, Charles de Gaulle, Charles Dickens, Château, Chernyaev, Confidence trick, Coronation, Crime Writers' Association, Danila Kozlovsky, De Geus, Debutante, Decadence, Detective, Detective fiction, Diamond (gemstone), Dr. Watson, Edgar Allan Poe, Egor Beroev, Equestrianism, Espionage, Ethnography, Extortion, Foreign relations of Meiji Japan, Frederick Forsyth, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gentleman detective, Georges Simenon, Germans, Gold Dagger, Golden Eagle Award (Russia), Graphic novel, ..., Gumshoe Awards, Guy de Maupassant, Haiku, He Lover of Death, Hebrew language, Historical mystery, History of Russia (1855–92), History of Russia (1892–1917), Homer, Iliad, Irkutsk, Jack the Ripper, Jules Maigret, Junior Captain Rybnikov, Kazuo Ishiguro, Khitrovka, Khodynka Tragedy, Knyaz, Kolkata, Konstantin Khabensky, Leo Tolstoy, List of political conspiracies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maurice Leblanc, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Lermontov, Mikhail Skobelev, Milla Jovovich, Miss Marple, Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Murder on the Leviathan, Netherlands, Nicholas II of Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ninja, Ninjutsu, Novella, Old Believers, Oleg Menshikov, Oliver Twist, Orion Publishing Group, Orphan, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Patricia Highsmith, Patronymic, Paul Verhoeven, Pleven, Politics, Prince Myshkin, Publishing, Rail transport, Random House, Red Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert van Gulik, Russian Civil War, Russo-Japanese War, Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), Ruth Rendell, San'yūtei Enchō, Sceptre, She Lover of Death, Sherlock Holmes, Shingon Buddhism, Simon Robson, Snake, Southampton, Soviet Union, Special Assignments, Spinster, State Councillor (Russia), Steamship, Suicide, Table of Ranks, Television, Temple (anatomy), The Coronation (novel), The Day of the Jackal, The Death of Achilles, The Diamond Chariot, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Idiot, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Master and Margarita, The Remains of the Day, The State Counsellor, The Suicide Club (short story collection), The Turkish Gambit, The Winter Queen (novel), Theatre, Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, Trans-Siberian Railway, Tsar, Umberto Eco, Umberto I of Italy, Upper class, Vajrayana, Vayner Brothers, Vologda Oblast, War and Peace, Washington Irving, Western (genre), Woe from Wit, Wyoming, Yakuza, Ying and Yan, Yokohama, Yulian Semyonov. Expand index (110 more) »
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time (Герой нашего времени, Geroy nashego vremeni) is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841.
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Achilles
In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Ἀχιλλεύς, Achilleus) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.
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Aleksandr Kuprin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Купри́н) (in the village of Narovchat in the Penza GovernorateTHE MOSCOW WINDOWS'HOME. Sergei Sossinsky. Moscow News (Russia). HISTORY; No. 6. 17 February 1999. – 25 August 1938 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer best known for his novels ''The Duel'' (1905)Kuprin scholar Nicholas Luker, in his biography Alexander Kuprin, calls The Duel his "greatest masterpiece" (chapter IV) and likewise literary critic Martin Seymour-Smith calls The Duel "his finest novel" (The New Guide to Modern World Literature (pg.1051)) and The Pit, as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Junior Captain Rybnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911), the latter made into a 1965 movie.
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Alexander Griboyedov
Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Грибое́дов, Aleksándr Sergeyevich Griboyedov or Sergéevich Griboédov; 15 January 179511 February 1829), formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Griboyedoff, was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer.
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (a) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic eraBasker, Michael.
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Andrew Bromfield
Andrew Bromfield is a British editor and translator of Russian works.
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina (p) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878.
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Antique
A true antique (antiquus; "old", "ancient") is an item perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance, and often defined as at least 100 years old (or some other limit), although the term is often used loosely to describe any objects that are old.
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Anton Yelchin
Anton Viktorovich Yelchin (11 March 1989 – 19 June 2016) was an American actor.
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Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.
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Assassination
Assassination is the killing of a prominent person, either for political or religious reasons or for payment.
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Azazel
Azazel (ʿAzazel; ʿAzāzīl) appears in the Bible in association with the scapegoat rite.
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Bel Ami
Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in 1903.
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Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin (Борис Акунин) is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (Григорий Шалвович Чхартишвили; გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვილი) (born May 20, 1956), a Russian writer of Georgian and Jewish origin.
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Box office
A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.
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Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.
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Central Partnership
Central Partnership (Централ Партнершип) is a Russian film distribution and production company founded in 1995.
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Château
A château (plural châteaux; in both cases) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in French-speaking regions.
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Chernyaev
Chernyaev (Черняев) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Chernyaeva.
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Confidence trick
A confidence trick (synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust.
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Coronation
A coronation is the act of placement or bestowal of a crown upon a monarch's head.
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Crime Writers' Association
The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a writers' association in the United Kingdom.
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Danila Kozlovsky
Danila Valerievich Kozlovsky (Данила Валерьевич Козловский; born 3 May 1985) is a Russian actor and director.
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De Geus
De Geus is a Dutch surname.
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Debutante
A debutante or deb (from the French débutante, "female beginner") is a girl or young woman of an aristocratic or upper-class family who has reached maturity and, as a new adult, comes out into society at a formal "debut".
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Decadence
The word decadence, which at first meant simply "decline" in an abstract sense, is now most often used to refer to a perceived decay in standards, morals, dignity, religious faith, or skill at governing among the members of the elite of a very large social structure, such as an empire or nation state.
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Detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.
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Detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.
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Diamond (gemstone)
A diamond (from the ἀδάμας adámas, meaning "unbreakable", "proper", or "unalterable") is one of the best-known and most sought-after gemstones.
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Dr. Watson
John H. Watson, known as Dr.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.
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Egor Beroev
Egor Vadimovich Beroev (Егор Вадимович Бероев; born 9 October 1977) is a Russian actor of theater.
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Equestrianism
Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, horseman, horse), more often known as riding, horse riding (British English) or horseback riding (American English), refers to the skill of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses.
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Espionage
Espionage or spying, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information.
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Ethnography
Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.
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Extortion
Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.
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Foreign relations of Meiji Japan
During the Meiji period, the new Government of Meiji Japan also modernized foreign policy, an important step in making Japan a full member of the international community.
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Frederick Forsyth
Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English author, former journalist and spy, and occasional political commentator.
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Fyodor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (Фёдор Серге́евич Бондарчу́к; born May 9, 1967) is a Russian film director, actor, TV and film producer, clipmaker, TV host, founder of production company Art Pictures Studio.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyHis name has been variously transcribed into English, his first name sometimes being rendered as Theodore or Fedor.
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Gentleman detective
The gentleman detective is a type of fictional character.
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Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer.
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Germans
Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.
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Gold Dagger
The Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year.
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Golden Eagle Award (Russia)
The Golden Eagle Award (премия Золотой Орёл) is an accolade by the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, directors, actors, and writers.
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Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content.
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Gumshoe Awards
The Gumshoe Awards are an American award for popular crime fiction literary works.
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Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
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Haiku
(plural haiku) is a very short Japan poem with seventeen syllables and three verses.
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He Lover of Death
He Lover of Death is a novel by Russian author Boris Akunin.
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Hebrew language
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Historical mystery
The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction.
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History of Russia (1855–92)
In 1855 Alexander II began his reign as Tsar of Russia, and presided over a period of political and social reform, notably the emancipation of serfs in 1861 and the lifting of censorship.
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History of Russia (1892–1917)
Under Tsar Nicholas II (reigned 1894–1917), the Russian Empire slowly industrialized while repressing opposition in the political center and on the far left.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.
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Iliad
The Iliad (Ἰλιάς, in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.
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Irkutsk
Irkutsk (p) is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia.
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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.
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Jules Maigret
italic, simply italic or italic to most people, is a fictional French police detective, actually a italic or commissioner of the Paris italic (italic), created by writer italic.
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Junior Captain Rybnikov
"Junior Captain Rybnikov" (Shtabs-Kapitan Rybnikov, Штабс-капитан Рыбников) is a short story by Alexander Kuprin first published in Mir Bozhys January 1906 issue.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer.
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Khitrovka
Khitrovskaya Square (Хитровская площадь), also known historically as Khitrov marketplace (Хитров рынок) or simply Khitrovka (Хитровка), is a square in the centre of Moscow that existed from the 1820 to 1930s and was restored in the 2010s.
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Khodynka Tragedy
The Khodynka Tragedy (Ходынская трагедия) was a human stampede that occurred on, on Khodynka Field in Moscow, Russia during the festivities following the coronation of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II, which resulted in the deaths of 1,389 people.
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Knyaz
Knyaz or knez is a historical Slavic title, used both as a royal and noble title in different times of history and different ancient Slavic lands.
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Kolkata
Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Konstantin Khabensky
Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, PAR (Константин Юрьевич Хабенский; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist.
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Leo Tolstoy
Count Lyov (also Lev) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (also Лев) Николаевич ТолстойIn Tolstoy's day, his name was written Левъ Николаевичъ Толстой.
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List of political conspiracies
In a political sense, conspiracy refers to a group of people united in the goal of usurping, altering or overthrowing an established political power.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (11 November 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (p; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.
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Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (p; –) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism.
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Mikhail Skobelev
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev (29 September 1843 – 7 July 1882) was a Russian general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.
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Milla Jovovich
Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich (born December 17, 1975), known professionally as Milla Jovovich, is an American actress, model and musician.
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Miss Marple
Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in 12 of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in 20 short stories.
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Moscow
Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.
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Moscow Governorate
Moscow Governorate (Московская губерния; pre-reform Russian: Московская губернія), or the Government of Moscow, was an administrative division (a guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1708–1929.
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Murder on the Leviathan
Murder on the Leviathan (Russian: Левиафан ("Leviathan"); British edition titled Leviathan) is the third novel in the Erast Fandorin historical detective series by Boris Akunin, although it was the second book in the series to be translated into English.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II or Nikolai II (r; 1868 – 17 July 1918), known as Saint Nicholas II of Russia in the Russian Orthodox Church, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917.
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Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (Ники́та Серге́евич Михалко́в; born 21 October 1945) is a Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.
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Ninja
A or was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan.
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Ninjutsu
, sometimes used interchangeably with the modern term, is the strategy and tactics of unconventional warfare, guerrilla warfare and espionage purportedly practiced by the shinobi (commonly known outside Japan as ninja).
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Novella
A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.
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Old Believers
In Eastern Orthodox church history, the Old Believers, or Old Ritualists (старове́ры or старообря́дцы, starovéry or staroobryádtsy) are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church as they existed prior to the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666.
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Oleg Menshikov
Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR (Оле́г Евге́ньевич Ме́ньшиков; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer.
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39.
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Orion Publishing Group
Orion Publishing Group Ltd.
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Orphan
An orphan (from the ορφανός orphanós) is someone whose parents have died, unknown, or have permanently abandoned them.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels based on the character of Tom Ripley.
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Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (i.e., an avonymic), or an even earlier male ancestor.
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Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven (born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch director, screenwriter and film producer.
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Pleven
Pleven (Плевен) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria.
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Politics
Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
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Prince Myshkin
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (pre-reform Russian: князь Левъ Николаевичъ Мышкинъ; post-reform knyazʹ Lev Nikoláyevich Mýshkin) is the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot.
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Publishing
Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.
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Red Sea
The Red Sea (also the Erythraean Sea) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer.
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Robert van Gulik
Robert Hans van Gulik (August 9, 1910 – September 24, 1967) was an orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.
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Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War (Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossiyi; November 1917 – October 1922) was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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Russo-Japanese War
The Russo–Japanese War (Russko-yaponskaya voina; Nichirosensō; 1904–05) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.
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Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 (lit, named for the year 1293 in the Islamic calendar; Руско-турска Освободителна война, Russian-Turkish Liberation war) was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro.
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Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015), was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
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San'yūtei Enchō
was a Japanese author and rakugo performer of the late Edo and early Meiji eras.
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Sceptre
A sceptre (British English) or scepter (American English; see spelling differences) is a symbolic ornamental staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia.
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She Lover of Death
She Lover of Death is a novel by Russian author Boris Akunin.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Shingon Buddhism
is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asia, originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra.
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Simon Robson
Simon Robson is a British actor, director and writer.
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Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
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Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Special Assignments
Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin (Russian Особые поручения) is a book by Russian author Boris Akunin, published in 2007.
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Spinster
Spinster is a term used to refer to an unmarried woman who is older than what is perceived as the prime age range during which women should marry.
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State Councillor (Russia)
State Councillor (статский советник, statskiy sovetnik) was the civil position (class) in the Russian Empire, according to the Table of Ranks introduced by Peter the Great in 1722.
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Steamship
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically drive (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
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Table of Ranks
The Table of Ranks (Табель о рангах; tabel' o rangakh) was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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Temple (anatomy)
Temple indicates the side of the head behind the eyes.
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The Coronation (novel)
The Coronation (Russian: Коронация, или Последний из романов, "Coronation, or the Last of the Romanovs") is a historical detective novel by Boris Akunin, published originally in 2000.
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The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
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The Death of Achilles
The Death of Achilles (Смерть Ахиллеса) is the fourth novel in the Erast Fandorin historical detective series by Boris Akunin.
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The Diamond Chariot
The Diamond Chariot (Алмазная Колесница, the Russian term for the "Diamond Vehicle" (kongōjō) school of Tantric Buddhism) is a historical mystery novel by internationally acclaimed Russian detective story writer Boris Akunin, published originally in 2003.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.
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The Idiot
The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic high fantasy adventure film produced, written, and directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita (Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime.
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The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro.
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The State Counsellor
The State Counsellor (Статский советник, the 5th grade in the Table of Ranks of Imperial Russia) is the sixth novel in the Erast Fandorin historical detective series by Boris Akunin.
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The Suicide Club (short story collection)
The Suicide Club is a collection of three 19th century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative.
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The Turkish Gambit
The Turkish Gambit (Турецкий гамбит, Turetskiy gambit) is the second novel from the Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels by Russian author Boris Akunin.
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The Winter Queen (novel)
The Winter Queen (Russian: Азазель, Azazel) is the first novel from the Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels, written by Russian author Boris Akunin.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery
The Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (Tretiye Otdeleniye, or III отделение собственной Е.И.В канцелярии, sometimes translated as Third Department) was a secret police department set up in Imperial Russia, inherited from Tayny Prikaz, Privy Chancellery and Specialty Chancellery, effectively serving as the Imperial regime's secret police for much of its existence.
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Trans-Siberian Railway
The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR, p) is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East.
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Tsar
Tsar (Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic: ц︢рь or цар, цaрь), also spelled csar, or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe.
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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor.
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Umberto I of Italy
Umberto I (Savoia; 14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900), nicknamed the Good (Italian: il Buono), was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his assassination on 29 July 1900.
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Upper class
The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, and usuall are also the wealthiest members of society, and also wield the greatest political power.
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Vajrayana
Vajrayāna, Mantrayāna, Tantrayāna, Tantric Buddhism and Esoteric Buddhism are the various Buddhist traditions of Tantra and "Secret Mantra", which developed in medieval India and spread to Tibet and East Asia.
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Vayner Brothers
The Vayner Brothers (Братья Вайнеры), (1931-2005) and) (1938-2009), were popular Soviet mystery fiction writers of Russian Jewish descent. Together they authored some 150 books and 22 screenplays. Both have been awarded with the Order of the Badge of Honour (March 1988) and they individually have other awards.
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Vologda Oblast
Vologda Oblast (r) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
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War and Peace
War and Peace (pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; post-reform translit) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.
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Woe from Wit
Woe from Wit (Russian: Горе от ума, also translated as "The Woes of Wit", "Wit Works Woe", Wit's End, and so forth) is Alexander Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow." The play, written in 1823 in the countryside and in Tiflis, was not passed by the censorship for the stage, and only portions of it were allowed to appear in an almanac for 1825.
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Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.
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Yakuza
, also known as, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan.
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Ying and Yan
Ying and Yan (Инь и Ян) is a play by Boris Akunin written for the director Alexey Borodin, edited by Zaharov in 2006.
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Yokohama
, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.
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Yulian Semyonov
Yulian Semyonovich Semyonov (Юлиа́н Семёнович Семёнов), pen-name of Yulian Semyonovich Lyandres (Ля́ндрес) (October 8, 1931 – September 15, 1993), was a Soviet and Russian writer of spy fiction and detective fiction, also scriptwriter and poet.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erast_Fandorin
