American'ets

13 hrs. 59 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Dmitriy Miropolsky

Narrator Alexander Aravushkin

Description

A virtuoso card cheat, an excellent marksman, and an unsurpassed fencer—he defended the Fatherland and his own honor with weapons in his hands. He was once stripped of rank, and with desperate courage he won his titles back with awards. He bowed to the public from the theater’s box when they talked about him on stage: “A night robber, a duelist; / Exiled to Kamchatka, he returned as an Aleut; / And he’s not clean-handed at all; / But a clever man can’t not be a trickster.” By deception he took part in the first Russian circumnavigation voyage, became famous as a warrior and as a conqueror of women’s hearts across three continents, amazed contemporaries with his tattoos, and traveled all the way across Russia—from east to west. He was a descendant of an old noble family and the best hunter among a tribe of savages. He served as the prototype for book heroes and a hero of salon gossip— the famous adventurer Count Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy, nicknamed the “American.”