Boriss Akunin „Azazel“ Moskva 1876. Noor mees astub pargipingil istuva kauni daami juurde ning palub teatraalselt luba teda suudelda. Naine keeldub ning noormees laseb ennast maha. Staažikas uurija peab juhtumit labaseks enesetapuks. Tema noor abiline Erast Fandorin näeb aga teos midagi enamat ning avastab uurimise käigus poliitilise vandenõu. «Azazel» on esimene raamat, kus lugejate ette astub tõeline riiginõunik Erast Fandorin, segu klassikalisest inglise džentelmenist ja vene intellektuaalist. The novel opens on 13 May 1876 with a university student, Pyotr Kokorin, committing suicide in the public park in front of a beautiful young noblewoman, Elizaveta von Evert-Kolokoltseva. His will leaves his large fortune to the newly opened Moscow chapter of Astair House, an international network of schools for orphan boys founded by an English noblewoman, Lady Astair
The tradition of the classic Russian novel continues with such authors as Mikhail Shishkin and Vasily Aksyonov. Detective stories and thrillers have proven a very successful genre of new Russian literature: in the 1990s serial detective novels by Alexandra Marinina, Polina Dashkova and Darya Dontsova were published in millions of copies. In the next decade Boris Akunin who wrote more sophisticated popular fiction, e.g. a series of novels about the 19th century sleuth Erast Fandorin, was eagerly read across the country. Science fiction was always well selling, albeit second to fantasy, that was relatively new to Russian readers. These genres boomed in the late 1990s, with authors like Sergey Lukyanenko, Nick Perumov, Maria Semenova, Vera Kamsha, Alexey Pekhov, Anton Vilgotsky and Vadim Panov. A good share of modern Russian science fiction and fantasy is written in Ukraine, especially in Kharkiv, home to H. L. Oldie, Alexander Zorich, Yuri Nikitin and Andrey Valentinov
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