In St. Petersburg, in 1870, two events reveal the deep fissures in Russian society. No one seems to notice when a child factory worker is abducted, but the murder of a society beauty creates a sensation. Magistrate Porfiry Petrovich confronts the tsar's secret police while investigating two crimes that increasingly appear to be linked and politically motivated.
In St. Petersburg, in 1870, two events reveal the deep fissures in Russian society. No one seems to notice when a child factory worker is abducted, but the murder of a society beauty creates a sensation. Magistrate Porfiry Petrovich confronts the tsar's secret police while investigating two crimes that increasingly appear to be linked and politically motivated.
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