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Boris Akunin the Winter Queen Pdf Boris akunin the winter queen pdf Continue BORIS AKUNIN - pseudonym Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the Republic of Georgia in 1956; he is a philologist, critic, essayist and Translator of Japanese. He published his first detectives in 1998 and in a very short time became one of the most read authors in Russia. To date, he has written nine novels by Erast Fandorin, as well as working on two other series. Akunin enjoys almost legendary popularity in Russia. He lives in Moscow.ANDREW BROMFIELD was born in Hull, England. For a long time he lived in Moscow, where he was a co-founder and editor of the literary magazine Glas, and now lives and works in the countryside of Surrey. He is best known for his well-known translations of Victor Pelevin's short stories and novels, including On the Life of Insects, The Little Finger of the Buddha, and Homo zasien. Winter queen Recent Russian editionAutoorBoris AkuninOriginal title (Azasel')TranslatorAdru BromfieldCountryRussiaGaRussiaRussiaRaceeras FandorinGenerIstorist DetectiveOublichersharov (Russia) Weidenfeld and Nicholson (UK) Random House (USA) Publication date1998Media ) Paperback), free online textPages222 pp (HB)ISBN5-8159-0494-5 (Russian HB)OCLC64556503After the Turkish gambit Winter queen (Russian: the queen, Azazel) is the first novel in a series of historical detective novels by Erast Fandorin, written by Russian author Boris Akunin. It was the subtitle of The Mystery of the Conspiracy. The story summary of the Novel opens on May 13, 1876 by university student Peter Kokorin, committing suicide in a public park in front of a beautiful young noblewoman Elizabeth von Evert-Kolokoltseva. His will be leaving his fortune in the newly opened Moscow chapter of Astaire House, an international network of schools for orphaned boys founded by English noblewoman Lady Astaire. Apparently, the open and closed case of suicide belongs to the inexperienced 20-year-old detective Erast Fandorin. He interviews Elizabeth and immediately falls in love with her. Further investigation reveals that Kokorin played Russian roulette (in a novel called American roulette) with another university student, Akhtyrtsev. Fandorin tails Akhtyrtsev, who leads him to a sensual dark-haired woman, Amalia Bezetskaya, whom Fandorin recognizes from a photograph in Kokorin's room. He follows Bezecka to her home, where she spends time, playing with many men who come to visit. In Bezecki's house, Fandorin meets Count Surov, an army officer whom Amalia seems to love, and sees Akhtyrtsev again. Akhtyrtsev and Fandorin leave Amalia's house together to go for a drink, and Akhtyrtsev shows Fandorin that Russian roulette between him and Kokorin was Bezetskaya's idea. Just as the mystery of Kokorin's suicide seems to have solved, the mysterious white-eyed stabbed Akhtyrstev to death and tries to kill Fandorin, but he fails when his knife bounces off the corset that Fandorin wears. When he kills Akhtyrtsev, a white-eyed man loses one word: Azazel. The murder of Akhtyrtsev draws a lot of attention to what seemed commonplace. Fandorin gets a new boss, Ivan Brilling, a complex detective familiar with modern methods of investigation. Brilling believes that the murder is a matter of activity of the terrorist organization Azazel which operates in Moscow. He sends Fandorin to interview Lady Astaire, whose House of Astaire has now acquired Akhtyrtsev's fortune with Kokorin, because both students left all their assets in Aster House after Amalia Bezetskaya offered them to do so. Lady Astaire helps Fandorin, who leaves school, convinced of his innocence and impressed with his charitable mission. Fandorin goes on to investigate Count Surov. After Fandorin beats zurov on the cards, the count challenges him to a duel, but it turns out to be a practical joke on Fandorin, and the count is friends with him. Surov, believing that Fandorin is as in love with Amalya as he is, and wanting Fandorin to win her heart so that she can be released, shows Fandorin that she is staying at the Winter's Queen Hotel in London. Fandorin goes to London, where he tracked Bezetskaya to a house in the city. He sneaks into her room after she leaves her and finds a paper that appears to list Azazel's members around the world, many of whom hold high ground in government or the army. Fandorin is about to leave when Bezetska catchs him in his room. They fight, the shot goes into darkness, and Fandorin escapes, believing that he killed Amalia. However, he did not do so, as Amalia and her henchmen kidnapped Fandorin from his hotel room. Amalia leaves his henchmen to kill Fandorin, and they are about to come true, when Count Surov appears out of nowhere and saves Fandorin's life. He admits to Fandorin that jealousy of Amalia led him to follow Fandorin to London. Fandorin assures Mr. Surov that he is not a rival to Amalia, and he leaves either to kill her or somewhere to take her. Meanwhile, Fandorin hastily travels to St. Petersburg to intercept a letter that Amalia sent to her Azazel. He succeeds and sees a letter delivered to Gerald Cunningham, a teacher of Moscow Astaire House. Fandorin informs Briling, and they go together to arrest Cunningham, but Brilling shoots Cunningham dead, and shows Fandorin that he is also Anzasel's agent. Fandorin and Brilling fight, and Brilling is killed. Fandorin returns to Moscow to continue the investigation. On the way, he meets Elizabeth on the train and learns that she is as amazed by it as he is by her. By to Moscow he again goes to Lady Astaire and asks her her she knows something about Cunningham's activities with Aziel. Talking to Lady Astaire, Fandorin suddenly realizes that Cunningham was too young to start Azazel, and that Lady Astaire is a true criminal mastermind. Lady Astaire acknowledges Fandorina, admitting that she is the head of Azazelle. She tells him that her Astaire homes are part of a conspiracy to train bright young orphan boys to serve her and her group, who plan to eventually take over the world. She then tells one of her servants, German Professor Blanc, to give Fandorin a lobotomy so that they can reclassify him as a member of Aziel, but Fandorin runs away and confronts Lady Astaire, who is waiting for him with the bomb. Lady Astaire lures him with him, but after Fandorin pleads for his life, she releases him in exchange for a promise not to hunt down his children from Astaire Houses. Lady Astaire seems to have committed suicide with her bomb. Fandorin, however, has been ordered to help campaign to root out Azazel members in Russia, which he does. His fault is in breaking his promise to mars his happiness on his wedding day with Elizabeth. After the newlyweds retreat to their hotel room, the messenger brings Fandorin a package. Fandorin approaches the window and sees the messenger desperately running into the carriage, driven by a white-eyed killer who had previously tried to kill Fandorin. Fandorin jumps out of the window in an attempt to arrest the killer and thus escapes from the bomb that explodes and kills his young bride. The novel ends with a stunned Fandorin, walking the streets of Moscow, his hair graying in the temples because of the shock of the death of his wife. The genesis, reception and adaptation of Boris Akunin's Fandorin series is a pseudonym for Grigory Chkartashvili, a Russian writer and academic who also worked as a translator of Japanese literature in Russian. Chkartshvili conceived a series of detective novels, demonstrating each of the genres of detective fiction, of which Chkartshvili found 16. Thus, the Erast Fandorin series is scheduled to run through 16 books. 14 books have already been published in Russia; The winter queen is the first of five to have been translated into English. Azazel was not an immediate success when it was published in 1998, selling only six thousand copies. However, the fifth novel in the Fandorin series, Special Tasks, became a bestseller, as did all of Fandorin's other novels after that. Azazel has sold 15 million copies in Russia and many others around the world. The screen adaptation of Azazel was filmed for Russian television in 2002. Ilya Noskov starred as Fandorin, and Akunin adapted his own novel to the script. Fedor Bondarchuk intends to direct the English-language film version of Azazel with Paul Verhoeven as a producer. The screenplay was written by Gerard Soeteman, with whom Verhoeven made several films in Past. Actor Dan Stevens plays the role of Erast Fandorin and Milla Jovovich as Amalia Bezetskaya. Filming was first scheduled for the summer of 2007, but Jovovich became pregnant. On May 22, 2007, a representative of Paul Verhoeven announced that filming had been postponed and would begin in 2010. As a result of the merger of GFM and Seven Arts, plans were announced to begin filming the Winter queen in August 2011. Filming is London, St. Petersburg and Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. Radio adaptation between 13 October 2003 and 24 October 2003, the abbreviated version was shown as the Book in Bedtime on BBC Radio 4, in 10, 15-minute parts. Links to Archive Copy. Archive from the original 2006-10-27. Extracted 2006-08-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - Azazel on IMDb - b Paul Verhoeven stelt Winter queen jaar uit. De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 2007-05-22. Received 2007-06-10. Milla Jovovich's Russian trail. The Voice of Russia. 2007-03-07. Received 2007-06-10. Jeffrey McNab (May 16, 2011). GFM contacts Seven Arts. Screen daily. Received on May 19, 2011. GFM helps Seven Arts with the sales, marketing and financing of its projects such as Neuromancer and the long gestating Winter queen (due to shoot in August) while pushing ahead with its own titles.
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