The Case of the Heir to the Tsarevich: A Novel

The senior investigator of the Investigative Committee, Orest Volin, is sent to France and takes with him another batch of diaries from Nestor Vasilievich Zagorsky. This time, the pages of the manuscript recount a tale that befell the detective in... 1891 in China and Japan. What compelled him to travel so far to the East, and how could he manage to do so with only a month to prepare? As always, state matters of great importance await him, which only Nestor Vasilievich can handle. For just last year, the heir to the Russian throne, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov, embarked on a grand sea voyage. The last countries in the series of stops for the tsarevich will be China and Japan. And it is there that something irreparable may happen…