The movie is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. A Russian James Bond in the 19th century.
Release Date: 20 February 2007 (Russia)
English title: The Sovereign’s Servant
Russian title: Sluga Gosudarev
Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.