In 2021, senior investigator Orest Volin travels to France to visit his girlfriend Irene Belieu, a Parisian. Irene works in the Paris police and investigates the murder of a Russian collector and the theft of items that belonged to the legendary Prince Yusupov—the murderer of Grigory Rasputin…
…Another memoir by Zagorsky recounts events of 1925. Zagorsky’s former lover, Svetlana Lisitskaya, who works as a live model at the Leningrad Art-and-Technical Institute, accidentally learns about a criminal scheme with the help of which masterpieces of fine art are stolen from museums and smuggled to the West.
Sensing the danger closing in on her, Lisitskaya sends Zagorsky a telegram asking him for help. Zagorsky asks her to come to Moscow.