Specificity of B. Akunin’s Historical Novels of “Anatoly Brusnikin” Series

The article analyses specificity of B. Akunin’s historical novels of “Anatoly Brusnikin” series. Brusnikin’s (Akunin’s) novels examine crucial events of the Russian history and their consequences (Peter the Great’s reforms in “The Ninth Savior”, the Caucasian issue in “Hero of a Different Time”, defence of Sevastopol in “Bellona”) through the lenses of the adventurous story. It is shown that the writer creates a post-modernist historical novel using the key post-modernist techniques (intertextuality, mystification, author’s mask, playing with the cultural opposition ‘Westerners vs Slavophiles’).