Pelagia and the White Bulldog: The First Sister Pelagia Mystery by Boris Akunin russian politics приключенческой литературе (Марк Твен

приключенческой литературе (Марк Твен

improvised new currencies and the world’s first air-dropped chemical weapons

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'The early Soviet period was a miraculously rich time for children’s books and their illustration' – Philip Pullman

Translated from the Norwegian by Seán Kinsella

Pelagia and the White Bulldog: The First Sister Pelagia Mystery by Boris Akunin russian politics приключенческой литературе (Марк ТвенCanine conspiracies, spurned lovers, murderous greed, jealousy, politics, power and knitting: Pelagia and the White Bulldog marks the beginning of an addictively entertaining new crime series from the internationally bestselling author, Boris Akunin. In the dying days of the nineteenth century, the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda