A Handful of Diamonds

A story-with-facts “A Handful of Diamonds” tells how a young man—a simple, kind-hearted provincial nobleman—came to Petersburg and, due to the fault of a young rich villain, got into trouble.

Prince Mikhail Nikolaevich Volkonsky—“the Russian Dumas,” as his contemporaries called him—wrote more than twenty historical novels and novellas. A representative of an ancient family, tracing its origins back to Rurik.