Prince of the Wind

Leonid Yuzefovich “The Prince of the Wind”—winner of the “National Bestseller” award, the final novel in the detective trilogy about the famous 19th-century Petersburg sleuth Ivan Putilin.

Ivan Putilin, retired from his post as chief of the Petersburg detective police, tells the writer Safronov about the cases he had to investigate. This time, we’re talking about the murder of the writer Nikolay Kamensky in the 1870s. The murder is connected to another one—the killing of the Mongol prince Nadan-van, who accepted Orthodoxy in order to sell his soul to the devil. The second line is the notes of the Russian officer Solodovnikov, who in 1913 served as a military instructor in the Mongol army. These notes end up in the hands of the writer Safronov—and it is in them that the mystery of events from thirty years ago is revealed.