Diamond Chariot. A Novel with Decoding

In this unique material, Boris Akunin reveals the mystery behind the creation of the book and its characters.

The book is published in two volumes (under one cover). The first volume begins in 1905, with a meeting with Staff Captain Rybinikov, known to us from the story by Kuprin. The Russo-Japanese War, where a network of Japanese agents is operating quite successfully in Russia, but in their way stands the experienced and wise Erast Petrovich Fandorin.

The second volume takes us to Japan in 1878: ninjas, geishas, samurais… This is the love story of young diplomat Erast Fandorin and the fatal beauty-ninja O-Yumi, a love that changed his whole life and reminded him of itself many years later…