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niesmotri'a na obsto'atelstwa Marinow is glad to have made acquaintance with Zofia. And she is deeply puzzled as a private relationship to a Russian opressor has been out of mind to her - up to now. But then political police officer Nikitin undermines her believes and forces her to take sides.

The criminal case moves more towards the foreground. Most likely it neither suicide, nor an accident, but murder. There are many suspects, but no strong motive for the murder. Events in the past seem to have an impact on the case, most importantly Eugenia's purportedly dead brother. Marinow seems to be interested in Zofia not only as a witness.

Stanislawska died by an overdose of laudanum. Was it suicide, an accident or murder? Marinov investigates at first on site. There are dark patches in the victim's past. Could there be a relation to her demise? And is her daughter Basia, the heiress to a small fortune, in danger too?

Stanisławski married a local widow, who brings the 10year old Basia into the marriage. We are introduced to the family through the eyes of Basia's private teacher, Zofia Jaworska, graduate of a boarding school that was closed for subversive activities.

Then suddenly the new Mrs. Stanisławska is found dead and Marinov starts his investigation.

Summer 1881 in Petrokov (earlier and now Piotrków Trybunalski), the capital of the westernmost governorate of the Russian empire. Mikołaj Stanisławski had vanished for years without trace after the death of his wife, when suddenly Pyotr Marinov, inquisitor from Saint Petersburg and Mikołaj's brother-in-law, notices a picture of him at a fotographer's shop.