Born | Grigory Chkhartishvili 20 May 1956 (age 63) Zestaponi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
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Pen name | Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, Akunin-Chkhartishvili |
Occupation | Writer, journalist, translator |
Nationality | Russian |
Alma mater | Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University |
Period | 1980s–present |
Genre | detective and historical fiction |
Notable works | Erast Fandorin series |
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www.akunin.ru |
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Erast Petrovich Fandorin | |
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Oleg Menshikov as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 movie The State Counsellor | |
First appearance | The Winter Queen |
Created by | Boris Akunin |
Portrayed by | Oleg Menshikov Egor Beroev Ilya Noskov |
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Alias | Erast Petrovich Nameless ('He Lover of Death'), Genji ('She Lover of Death'), Erast Petrovich Kuznetsov ('Before the End of the World') |
Nickname | Funduk (schoolmates); Erasmus (Count Zurov) |
Gender | Male |
Title | from Collegiate Registrar (1876) to State Counsellor (1891) |
Occupation | April–May 1876: Moscow police clerk May–September 1876, July 1877-March 1878: Agent of the Third Section September 1876-July 1877: Volunteer in the Serbian Army 1878-1882: Diplomat 1882-1891: Deputy for Special Assignments under the Governor-general of Moscow 1891-1904: private investigator, engineer and adventurer 1904-1905: Consulting engineer for the Railroad Police Department. |
Spouse | Yelizaveta 'Lizanka' von Evert-Kolokoltseva (1876), Eliza Altairskaya-Lointaine (1911-1914), Yelizaveta Anatolievna (last name unknown, possibly married c. 1919) |
Children | Alexander Fandorine (son), born 1920/21 |
English title | Russian title | Russian original publication | English translation | Genre | ||
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The Winter Queen | Азазель (Azazel) | 1998 | 2003 | Conspiracy mystery | ||
The Turkish Gambit | Турецкий гамбит | 1998 | 2005 | Spy novel | ||
Murder on the Leviathan | Левиафан (Leviathan) | 1998 | 2004 | Agatha Christie-type mystery | ||
The Death of Achilles | Смерть Ахиллеса | 1998 | 2005 | Hired killer mystery | ||
Special Assignments | The Jack of Spades | Особые поручения | Пиковый валет | 1999 | 2007 | A novella about confidence men |
The Decorator | Декоратор | A novella about a maniac | ||||
The State Counsellor | Статский советник | 2000 | 2009 | Political mystery | ||
The Coronation | Коронация, или Последний из Романов (Coronation, or the Last of the Romanovs) | 2000 | 2009 | High society mystery | ||
She Lover of Death | Любовница смерти (Mistress of Death) | 2001 | 2009 | Decadent mystery | ||
He Lover of Death | Любовник смерти (Lover of Death) | 2001 | 2010[15] | Dickensian mystery | ||
The Diamond Chariot | Алмазная колесница | 2003 | 2011[16] | Ethnographic mystery | ||
Ying and Yan | Инь и Ян | 2006 | Experimental play | |||
Jade Rosary Beads | Нефритовые Четки | 2006 | Different for each story in collection | |||
All the World's a Stage | Весь мир театр | 2009 | 2017 | Theatrical mystery | ||
The Black city | Черный город | 2012 | English translation announced for November 2018 | Thriller, political mystery | ||
Planet Water | Планета Вода | 2015 | Technocratic mystery, Nostalgic mystery, Idiotic mystery | |||
Not saying goodbye | Не прощаюсь | 2018 | Historical |