Vsevolod Solovyov (1849–1903), the son of the famous Russian historian S.M. Solovyov and the elder brother of poet and philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, is the author of a number of remarkable historical novels that describe events of the 17th through 19th centuries.
In the novel “The Captain of a Grenadier Company,” palace intrigues of the Biron era—an little-known period of Russian history—are vividly recounted.
The climax of the narrative is the arrest of Empress Anna Leopoldovna by the captain of a grenadier company—her daughter Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter I.