The State Counsellor

The State Counsellor

Infobox Book
name = The State Counsellor
title_orig = Статский советник
translator = Andrew Bromfield


image_caption =
author = Boris Akunin
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = Russia
language = Russian
series =
genre = Novel
publisher = Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Eng. trans.)
pub_date = 2000
english-pub-date = 2008 (Eng. trans.)
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages =
isbn = ISBN 0-297-84823-2
preceded_by = Special Assignments
followed_by = The Coronation

The State Counsellor (Russian: Статский советник, the 5th grade in the Table of Ranks of Imperial Russia) is the sixth novel in the Erast Fandorin series by Boris Akunin. It is subtitled политический детектив ("political detective"). "The State Counsellor" was originally published in Russia in 2000. The English translation was published in January 2008.

Plot

Moscow, 1891. Disguised as Fandorin, the leader of a revolutionary organization attempts to murder the governor of Moscow. Fandorin has to catch him to prove his innocence. He is assisted (or is it hindered?) in his investigations by Prince Pozharsky, a fictional descendant of Dmitry Pozharsky, who helped bring the Time of Troubles to an end.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

In 2005, "The State Counsellor" was turned into a movie starring Oleg Menshikov as Fandorin and Nikita Mikhalkov as Prince Pozharsky. The two-hour theatrical release was then expanded into a 3 1/2 hour version which was shown on Russian television. It was one of the most expensive Russian films ever made. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450158/]

References

External links

* [http://www.lib.ru/RUSS_DETEKTIW/BAKUNIN/akunin10.txt Full text] of the novel, in Russian
* [http://www.statskyfilm.ru/ Official website of the film] (Russian)
* "The State Counsellor" at the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450158/ IMDb]
* Collection of [http://www.film.ru/afisha/movie_stills.asp?code=STSOVT stills] from the film
* Russian [http://smoking-room.ru/data/kino/stat_sovetnik.html article] on the film, with stills
* English-language [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117927470.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 review] of the film, from "Variety"
* [http://russart.com/?movietrailer&mid=19 Movie Trailer] and [http://russart.com/?moviepictures&mid=19 Screenshots]


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