Pelagiya
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Pelagiya is the heroine of a trilogy of mystery novels by Boris Akunin.
Pelagiya is a nun, acting as a teacher in late 19th century Zavolzhsk, a town on the banks of the Volga in the Russian province. No dates are mentioned, but references to Sherlock Holmes, The Kreutzer Sonata and Marie Curie make clear that the action is set in the 1890s.
Pelagiya has an exceptional criminal talent, and with the support of the bishop of Zavolzhsk, Mitrofani, she investigates a number of mysterious cases.
The first novel, Pelagiya and the white bulldog (Пелагия и белый бульдог) is set in Zavolzhsk.
In the second novel, Pelagiya and the black monk (Пелагия и черный монах), Pelagiya investigates strange events in a remote island monastery under the jurisdiction of bishop Mitrofani (on an island in the fictitious Blue Lake in the Zavolzhsk region).
In Pelagiya and the red rooster (Пелагия и красный петух), the action takes us from a steamboat on the Volga to Stroganovka, a fictous village near the Urals, and on to Jerusalem, an early Zionist commune in Megiddo and to Sodom. Events in Imperial Russia move to Zhytomyr and Petersburg.
See also
External link
- [Пелагия и белый бульдог] full text of the first Pelagiya novel
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