Robespierre's Snuffbox

9 hrs. 12 min.

Language Russian

Author Natalia Alexandrova

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

Veronika, a modest administrator, leads a dull and monotonous life—until, all at once, everything changes radically. Bandits begin to pursue her, and it happens because one day the staff at a photo studio asked her to buy a birthday gift for the boss, Mikhail Rybtsov. If Veronika had gone to an ordinary souvenir shop, perhaps nothing would have happened, and she wouldn’t have been drawn into this mysterious story with unclear secrets. But fate leads her to an antique store, where the seller convinces her to buy an old snuffbox—the very one that once belonged to Robespierre, one of the most famous figures of the French Revolution. Veronika can’t even imagine that two letters—“M” and “R” engraved on the lid—mean not only the initials of the famous rebel Jacobin and, by coincidence, the photo studio boss Mikhail Rybtsov, but also the mystical seal of the Devil, in Latin “Malignus Rex”…