Sally McGrane about Grigory Chkhartishvili (Grigori Schalwowitsch Tschchartischwili), also known as Boris Akunin, with a worth reading portrait on Russia’s dissident detective novelist. Read more at newyorker.com.
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. Sophia Kishkovsky reports The New York Times Blog ArtsBeat.