Tsarskii potselui - Petrov V.

The heroes of the novel "The King's Kiss" are Russian writers. The actors are royalty and secret agents, chucheniks and pupils of the Page Corps, court girls and court wit, highlanders and gendarmes colonels, faithful and unfaithful wives, devils, note cheaters, ventriloquists, freemasons, first minister Persian Shah with his harem, the empress's left-handed, and other, other, other. The time of action is the golden age of the Russian nobility. The place of action - royal chambers and poetic collections, gambling houses and high-secular living rooms, theater workshops and dueling meadows, prison walls and crews traveling on Russian roads. The author leads the reader on the verge of reality and phantasmagoria, every now and then surprising the twists of the plot, but at the same time preserving the love of details and not neglecting the documents of the era.
Vladislav Petrov is a writer, journalist, historian, author of the novels "Hamov Ark," "Azbucly Truths," "Very Small Bess," several non-fiction books.