The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped … Egor Beroev, Olga Krasko, Marat Basharov, Vladimir Ilin, Dmitriy Pevtsov, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Aleksandr Baluev Added on Amazon Prime 2021-10-09.