In 1877, the Russian Empire takes part in the harshest of the Russian-Turkish wars. Young Varvara Suvorova, a Petersburg beauty with progressive views and almost a nihilist, is sent to the battle zone to her fiancé. The journey begins as a cheerful adventure, and then—suddenly—Varvara is left alone in a dubious roadside inn, and even random fellow travelers start playing cards with her...
For Varvara Suvorova’s adventures in the Balkans—where she finds herself right at the center of intriguing events, and together with a secret agent of the Russian Empire, Erast Fandorin, who exposes an extensive spy plot—read the novel “The Turkish Gambit.”