Russia's Favorite Crime Writer, Boris Akunin, Turns Historian
"Grigory Chkhartishvili, the best-selling Russian writer known for his detective novels set in imperial Russia (written under the name Boris Akunin), and for his foray into opposition politics directed against Vladimir V. Putin announced that from now on he would devote himself to writing a multivolume history of Russia." The New York Times 03/20/13

Posted March 22, 2013 12:57 AM