Erast Petrovich Fandorin is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the indiosyncratic hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Georgian author Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili).
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| Fandorin's St. Petersburgh The first novel was published in Russia in 1998, and the latest was published in December 2009. More than 15 million copies of Fandorin novels have been sold in Russia alone where the series rivals The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter in popularity. The series is as follows; |
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| The Jade Rosary Beads, not yet published in the UK |
All The World's a Stage - not yet published in UK.
There have been three Russian movies made based on the books, but reflecting the idiosyncracies of the character there has been a different actor playing the role each time. All of them offering a different aspect of the character but none quite managing a sum of all the parts. The most visually stunning is The State Counsellor.
Azazel, based upon the novel The Winter Queen
Turkish Gambit
The State Counsellor