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Fandorin
Fandorin is a fictitious Russian surname in the novels of Boris Akunin. Series protagonists include: * Erast Fandorin Erast Petrovich Fandorin (russian: Эраст Петрович Фандорин) is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Boris Akunin. The first Fandorin novel (''The Winte ... (1856–1919/20) * Nicholas Fandorin (born 1960) See also * von Dorn {{surname Russian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin (russian: Борис Акунин) is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (russian: Григорий Шалвович Чхартишвили, Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili; ka, გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვილი, born 20 May 1956), a Russian-Georgian writer. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. His characters include Erast Fandorin, Nicholas Fandorin and Sister Pelagia. Life and career Chkhartishvili was born in Zestaponi to a Georgian father and a Jewish mother and lived in Moscow from 1958 until 2014. Since then he has lived between Britain, France and Spain. Influenced by Japanese Kabuki theatre, he joined the historical-philological branch of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University as an expert on Japan. He was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erast Fandorin
Erast Petrovich Fandorin (russian: Эраст Петрович Фандорин) is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Boris Akunin. The first Fandorin novel (''The Winter Queen'', Russian: ''Азазель'') was published in Russia in 1998, and the latest and the last one in 2018 (''Not Saying Goodbye'', Russian: ''Не прощаюсь''). More than 15 million copies of Fandorin novels have been sold as of May 2006, even though the novels were freely available from many Russian websites and the hard copies were relatively expensive by Russian standards.Leon Aron, "''A Private Hero for a Privatized Country''" in ''Russian Outlook'' , retrieved 17 August 2006. New books in the Fandorin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Fandorin
Nicholas Fandorin is the protagonist of four novels by Boris Akunin, subtitled ("Adventures of the magister MA">Master_of_Arts.html" ;"title="iz., the Master of Arts">MA". He is the grandson of Akunin's other fictional character Erast Fandorin. 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'' (1995, 1675–76), , *2003: ''Extracurricular Reading'' (2001, 1795), , , *2006: '' F.M.'' (2006, 1865), *2009: ''The Falcon and the Swallow'' (2009, 1702) ''Altyn Tolobas'' Nicholas is the grandson of Erast Fandorin, born in ca. 1960. His father was Alexander Fandorin (1920–1994), born in British exile where his pregnant mother had fled from the Russian Civil War. Nicholas has a master's degree in history, specializing in the 19th century history of the Russian Empire, and (in ''Altyn Tolobas'') visits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Von Dorn
Dorn (German for thorn) is a German/Austrian and Dutch/Flemish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Angela Dorn-Rancke, , German politician *August T. Dorn (1849-1923), American politician * Dieter Dorn (born 1935), German theatre director *Dolores Dorn (1934–2019), American film actor *Edward John Dorn (1854-1937), United States Naval officer and Governor of Guam *Ed Dorn (1929–1999), U.S. poet *Earl Van Dorn (1820–1863), U.S. major general *Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848–1916), German physicist * Francis E. Dorn (1911–1987), member of the United States House of Representatives * George W. Dorn (1836–1891), President of the Chico Board of Trustees in 1872 *Gerhard Dorn (c. 1530 – 1584), Belgian philosopher, translator, alchemist, physician and bibliophile * Heinrich Dorn (1804–1892), German conductor and composer *Ivan Dorn (born 1988), Ukrainian singer, DJ, TV presenter and producer * Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, English writer and filmmaker *Jerry verDorn (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |