Viktor Polyakov

Pavel Nabatnikov, who fought in Afghanistan, returns to his village, determined to build a new house on his parents' ashes as the first step towards revitalizing the abandoned village.

The main character, an official of the 14th grade, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serves as a clerk in the Detective Department and secretly dreams of becoming a detective. By the will of circumstances, he finds himself involved in the investigation of a mysterious suicide.