| Erast Petrovich Fandorin | |
|---|---|
 Oleg Menshikov as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 movie The State Counsellor | |
| First appearance | The Winter Queen |
| Last appearance | The Pit |
| Created by | Boris Akunin |
| Portrayed by | Oleg Menshikov Egor Beroev Ilya Noskov Simon Robson Piotr Zurawski |
| In-universe information | |
| Alias | Erast Petrovich Nameless ("He Lover of Death"), Genji ("She Lover of Death"), Erast Petrovich Kuznetsov ("Before the End of the World") |
| Nickname | Funduk (schoolmates); Erasmus (Count Zurov) |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | April–May 1876: Moscow police clerk May–September 1876, July 1877-March 1878: Agent of the Third Section September 1876-July 1877: Volunteer in the Serbian Army 1878-1882: Diplomat 1882-1891: Deputy for Special Assignments under the Governor-general of Moscow 1891-1904: private investigator, engineer and adventurer 1904-1905: Consulting engineer for the Railroad Police Department. |
| Spouse | Yelizaveta "Lizanka" von Evert-Kolokoltseva (1876), Eliza Altairskaya-Lointaine (1911–1914), Yelizaveta Anatolievna "Mona" Turusova (married 1919) |
| Children | "Captain Vasily Rybnikov" (son, 1879–1905), Alexander Fandorine (son), born 1920 |
Erast Petrovich Fandorin (Russian: Эраст Петрович Фандорин) is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Boris Akunin.
The first Fandorin novel (The Winter Queen, Russian: Азазель) was published in Russia in 1998, and the latest and the last one in 2023 (The Pit, Russian: Яма). More than 15 million copies of Fandorin novels have been sold as of May 2006,[1] even though the novels were freely available from many Russian websites and the hard copies were relatively expensive by Russian standards.[2] New books in the Fandorin series typically sell over 200,000 copies in the first week alone,[2] with an unparalleled (for mystery novels) first edition of 50,000 copies for the first books to 500,000 copies for the last.[3][4]
The English translations of the novels have been critically acclaimed by, among others, Ruth Rendell.[5]
- ^ Jurjevics, Juris (11 May 2006). "The Death of Achilles: A Fandorin Mystery (includes interview with author)". San Diego Reader. Retrieved 18 February 2008.
- ^ a b Leon Aron, "A Private Hero for a Privatized Country" in Russian Outlook Archived 2006-08-16 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 17 August 2006.
- ^ Early news of All the World's a Stage sales[permanent dead link], retrieved 18 March 2010.
- ^ Yulia Idlis, "B. Akunin's Fandorin Saga: To Be Continued?", Kultura 1, 2006, pp. 10-15, retrieved 23 September 2006 (PDF).
- ^ Ruth Rendell, Fiction: The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin trans by Andrew Bromfield, The Sunday Times, 12 May 2003 Archived 28 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 26 September 2006.