Shot on Bolshaya Morskaya

In St. Petersburg, on one of the most luxurious streets – Bolshaya Morskaya – former Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Lev Makov committed suicide. What would prompt a successful minister, favored by the sovereign and the court, to shoot himself in the chest, and at such an incredible angle? State Councillor of the hereditary nobility Pavel Blagovo and his faithful assistant – a handsome, strongman and master of transformations – Alexei Lykov must pull the dangerous strings of this investigation and uncover the trail of an anti-state conspiracy by the mysterious "Holy League," which dreams of erasing not only the Russian Empire but also Europe from the face of the earth…