Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.


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Pyotr Fyodorov
Yakovlev

Vladimir Mashkov
Earl Beklemishev

Franziska Petri
Aleksandra Iosifovna

Martin Wuttke
German Baron

Sergey Garmash
One-armed nobleman

Yuri Kolokolnikov
Basargin

Aleksandr Yatsenko
Yakovlev Jr.

Yuriy Kuznetsov
Servant

Anton Kuznetsov
merchant, gunsmith
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