Boris Akunin: The Turkish Gambit

Boris Akunin: The Turkish Gambit Fandorin waited for him to finish before nodding decisively (p. 18) This quote refers to an episode when Erast Fandorin met Varvara Andreevna in a small tavern, situated in Bulgarian village. He won donkey in dies and confused Bulgarian by nodding, which meant disagreement in Bulgarian etiquette. Old boots this episode describes the talisman of French journalist, which always saved his life in times of trouble.

These boots were made by an old Jewish shoemaker from Sofia, who boasted their quality saying that they would serve for more than ten years. In fact, boots appeared to be awful, but the hole in one of them saved life to French journalist when his Egyptian guide wanted to murder him by putting poisonous snake in his boot. Journalist tells a number of cases justifying his decision to wear these old boots, as the rest of the company had new fancy boots.

It's a miracle, a sign from above!" (p.91) This quote is from an episode, which describes courtings of officer Zubov to Varvara Andreevna. He made a bet with Varvara Andreeva that he would guess who would come out of tent first. There were twenty persons inside so his chances were very small, but he guessed that it was a waiter. But the worst thing of all was ~ enemy's web had been snapped (p.

109) Varvara Andreevna understood that after the murder of colonel it would be impossible to detect the network, which went to Turkish spy Anvar-effendi who made diversions. 29-J + 15000z + I These notes were made by Romanian colonel Lucan. They meant not a secret code but a simple statistics of loses and wins of Lucan. Lucan lost a lot of money and was bribed by Anvar Effendi, whom everyone considered to be officer Sobolev.

He was stabbed in the back with ~ then they finished him off with~ at point blank range (p.182) This episode describes Zurov's murder during a battle when he had to deliver a very important message to Russian general. As a result of his murder the battle was lost and Turks were able to win time in Plevna. 7.

"So it was simply lying in his inside pocket? Well, well"(p.137) This episode describe that colonel Kazanzaki was blackmailed by Anvar-effendi, who knew about Kazanzaki's homosexuality, otherwise commander would not permit Kazanzaki's participation in serious and responsible counter intelligence secret actions of Russian army in war against Turks. 8. "By the way, Ivan Stepanovich,~ visitors from Osman Pasha" (p. 145) This episode describes how Turks wanted to trick Russian general and counter attack his flanges.

Osman Pasha decided to send visitors in order to "sign peace," in fact he wanted to use those "visitors" only to lull vigilance of Russian army. 9. "Salaam aleichem, Anwar-effendi"(p.183) These words were said by Fandorin to Sobolev (Anvar-effendi) meaning that Fandorin revealed the personality of Turkish spy. Are you out of your mind?~ the end of everything!"(p.194) If Anvar-Effendi's plan had come true and Russian army had occupied Constantinople, England and Austro-Hungary would have declared war.