Nicholas Fandorin
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| Nicholas Alexandrovich Fandorin Николай Александрович Фандорин | |
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| First appearance | Altyn Tolobas |
| Created by | Boris Akunin |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | historian, private counselor |
| Spouse | Altyn Mamaeva Алтын Мамаева |
Nicholas Fandorin is the protagonist of four novels by
The uniting concept of the series is that each novel combines two storylines, one set in present-day Russia (in 1995 to 2005), and a related one set in the Russian Empire (in the 1670s, 1790s, and 1860s).
- 2001: Altyn Tolobas Алтын-толобас (1995, 1675–76), ISBN 5-224-02898-1
- 2003: Extracurricular Reading Внеклассное чтение (2001, 1795), ISBN 5-224-04021-3
- 2006: ISBN 5-224-01638-X
- 2009: The Falcon and the Swallow Сокол и Ласточка (2009, 1702)
Altyn Tolobas
Nicholas is the grandson of
Extracurricular Reading
Extracurricular Reading is set in 2001, six years after the events of the preceding novel. Nicholas is now married to and has two children with Altyn Mamaeva, whom he met in 1995. He has abandoned his British citizenship for a Russian passport.
As in the preceding novel, Nicholas' current-day adventures are told in parallel with the story of one of his ancestors, in this case Daniel Vondorin Mithridates Karpov (Samson Vondorin), the 4th and 5th Fandorins after Cornelius, set in the final year of the reign (and life) of Catherine the Great. The connecting theme of the two stories surrounds the responsibilities of
Each chapter of the novel is titled after, and contains some literary allusion to, a classic of
F.M.
In F.M., Nicholas seeks a lost manuscript of (F.M.) Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The 19th-century story is told from the point of view of Porfiry Petrovich, the detective in Dostoevsky's novel, set in the decade predating the setting of the first Erast Fandorin novel.
The Falcon and the Swallow
Nicholas Fandorin, at the height of the financial crisis of 2009, travels on the Atlantic in the luxury cruise liner Falcon. The Swallow, meanwhile, is a light frigate which travelled the same waters in the year 1702. Nicholas has received from his British aunt Cynthia a manuscript by the hand of one Appin, which he finds out is really Laetitia von Dorn, a niece of captain Cornelius von Dorn, which turns out to lead to a hidden treasure. Laetitia in 1702, disguised as a man, is in search of the same, then-recently hidden, treasure.
External links
- official site
- Алтын-толобас (e-text)
- Внеклассное чтение (e-text)