


Books in series

The Winter Queen
1998

The Turkish Gambit
1998

Murder on the Leviathan
1998

The Death of Achilles
1998

Special Assignments
1999

Пиковый валет
Приключения Эраста Фандорина
1999

Dekorator
1999

The State Counsellor
A Fandorin Mystery
1999

The Coronation, or The Last of the Novels
2000

The Mistress of Death
2001

Death's Lover
2001

The Diamond Chariot
1999

Алмазная колесница . Том 1
2003

Алмазная колесница. Том 2
2003

Die Moskauer Diva
Fandorin ermittelt
2006

All the World's a Stage
2009

The Black City
2012

Последние дела Фандорина. Чёрный город. Не прощаюсь
2019

Планета вода
2015

Not Saying Goodbye
2018

Не прощаюсь. Просто Маса
2021

Просто Маса
2020

Яма
2023

Лягушка Басё
2023

Расшифровки
2025
Authors


Real name - Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili (Russian: Борис Акунин; Georgian: გრიგორი შალვას ძე ჩხარტიშვილი; Аlso see Grigory Chkhartishvili), born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1956. Since 1958 he lives in Moscow. Writer and translator from Japanese. Author of crime stories set in tsarist Russia. In 1998 he made his debut with novel Azazel (to English readers known as The Winter Queen), where he created Erast Pietrovich Fandorin. B. Akunin refers to Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin and Akuna, home name of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet. In September of 2000, Akunin was named Russian Writer of the Year and won the "Antibooker" prize in 2000 for his Erast Fandorin novel Coronation, or the last of the Romanovs. Akunin also created crime-solving Orthodox nun, sister Pelagia, and literary genres. His pseudonyms are Анатолий Брусникин and Анна Борисова. In some Dutch editions he is also known as Boris Akoenin.