Legionnaire. Book Three

Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Kalikinsky is a journalist and prose writer, author of historical novels, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia. He is widely known for his series of books “Agasphere”—five captivating retro spy detective stories devoted to the work of counterintelligence in Russia of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We present in audio format the writer’s next major work, one of his best—devoted to the fate of a real historical person.

Karl Landsberg, a brilliant officer, slipped up and became a criminal. Yet in the end, through repentance and many hardships, he brought a great deal of benefit to our country. There is a version that Landsberg was the prototype of Rodion Raskolnikov, the main character of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s famous novel “Crime and Punishment,” though, of course, the biographies of the book character and his likely prototype differ greatly.

Karl Landsberg shone in high society in St. Petersburg. He was promised a swift career—even up to a ministerial post. He tumbled down the career ladder, not even reaching the middle. The dazzling world vanished behind the closed walls of prison.

After the verdict of the court and society, the criminal world issued its own judgment to Landsberg—those whom today we call “thieves in law.”

In the third book, the adventures of Karl Landsberg continue. He is saved by a tunnel that the prince Shakhovsky started building in his time. However, his new life does not free him from his old enemies.