For the first time in one electronic book, all the works of Boris Akunin from the Master's Adventure cycle. The cycle opens with the novel "Altyn-tolobas". The British citizen Baronet Nicholas Fandorin, a descendant of the famous Russian detective Erast Fandorin, is going to Russia. Ancient mysteries of Moscow undergrounds, seventeenth century - and a modern hero - a basketball historian in a good English suit follows the footsteps of his ancestor Cornelius von Dorn in search of a mystical artifact. Moreover, if the ancestor has to survive in Muscovy after the troubled times, then the ancestor-baronet in the dashing 90s. The second part of the cycle is "Out-of-class reading". The novel develops two storylines in parallel. The action of one takes place in the last year of the reign of Catherine the Great, and the other - at the beginning of the 21st century. In one part - palace intrigues and the kidnapping of a youngster. In the other part - business disassembly and ... the kidnapping of a youngster. As Akunin himself says, for the third book - "F.M." - he was inspired by the rivalry with Dan Brown, who wrote The Da Vinci Code: "In the new novel," F. M., I had fun mimicking Dan Brown, there it can be seen with the naked eye. In general, I wanted to write a novel first, which would be called "Code of the painting "Morning in a Pine Forest", so that everyone would study the bears and look at the stumps, but then I decided that it would be more interesting to play Crime and Punishment. In the last, fourth novel, The Falcon and the Swallow, it is told that the wealthy English aunt Cynthia presents Nicholas Fandorin with a generous gift - a manuscript from Theofels Castle. The letter, written by the mysterious Epin, encodes the path to a cache with a large treasure. Fandorin has to decipher the mysterious message, and he enthusiastically takes up this matter, not even suspecting that his distant relative, Letitia von Dorn, niece of Captain Cornelius von Dorn, is hiding under the name Epin...
