In Boris Akunin's novel, The Diamond Chariot, Erast Fandorin investigates the plot to assassinate Ōkubo, but fails to prevent the assassination.

Under the pseudonym Boris Akunin, he has written many works of fiction, mainly novels and stories in the series The Adventures of Erast Fandorin, The Adventures of Sister Pelagia, The Adventures of the Master ( following Nicholas Fandorin, Erast's grandson ), all published in Russia by Zakharov Books, and the Roman-Kino (" Novel-Film ") series set during World War I. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia.

* Nicholas Fandorin in Boris Akunin's series of adventure novels.

Actors who have portrayed Long John Silver in the various motion picture adaptations of Treasure Island include Wallace Beery, Ivo Garrani, Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Eddie Izzard, Lance Henriksen, Robert Newton, Anthony Quinn, Tim Curry, Jack Palance, Brian Murray, Oleg Borisov, Boris Andreyev and British actor Ivor Dean in a televised version of the novel.

Jack Mylong-Münz as Boris

The clips from The Terror feature Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff.

Big names in the horror genre include actors Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and makeup artist Jack Pierce.

It was also directed by Boris Sagal, Robert Gist, Jack Arnold, Lamont Johnson and one episode by Robert Altman and several others.

Boris Karloff as the classic film version and Jack Pierce ( makeup artist ) | Jack Pierce's interpretation of Frankenstein's monster

The most well-known image of Frankenstein's monster in popular culture derives from Boris Karloff's portrayal in the 1931 movie Frankenstein, with makeup created by Jack Pierce.

* NY Times of Ruthanna Boris by Jack Anderson ( dance critic ) | Jack Anderson, January 8, 2007

American International Pictures movies starred many established actors in principal or cameo roles, such as Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester and Vincent Price, as well as others who later became household names, including Don Johnson, Nick Nolte, Diane Ladd, and most notably Jack Nicholson.

Troubles within the studio ( and the collapse of a preliminary co-production arrangement with National Telefilm Associates ) resulted in production being cancelled after only 10 episodes ( an additional episode called " Jack the Ripper " had been produced by another studio and was acquired by the Roach Studios ; Boris Karloff only introduces the episode ).

Jack Pierce ( born Janus Piccoula ; May 5, 1889 – July 19, 1968 ) was a Hollywood makeup artist most famous for creating the iconic makeup worn by Boris Karloff in Universal Studios ' 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, along with various other classic monster make-ups for Universal Studios.

On November 20, 1957, Ralph Edwards got Jack Pierce reunited with a smiling Boris Karloff on the celebrity biography program This is Your Life.

* Brief appearance of Jack with Boris on This is Your Life

Universal fought hard to prevent Hammer from duplicating aspects of their 1931 film, and so it was down to make-up artist Phil Leakey to design a new-look creature bearing no resemblance to the Boris Karloff original created by Jack Pierce.

Soblen's brother Jack was arrested in 1957 and charged with espionage, primarily based on the testimony of Hollywood producer Boris Morros.

The film's version of the Monster is noted for resembling Universal Pictures ' famous Frankenstein series of the 1930s and 1940s, including the flat-headed look of Jack Pierce's monster make-up originally designed for Boris Karloff as well as the distinctive laboratory sets.

The Veil episode " Jack the Ripper " ( 1958 ) was a made-for-television film introduced by Boris Karloff, in which a clairvoyant identifies the Ripper as a respectable surgeon whose death has been faked to cover his incarceration in a lunatic asylum.

After him in the 19th century in Russia there were written such operatic masterpieces as Rusalka and The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and The Snow Maiden and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

The diva made many recordings, including Eugene Onegin ( 1956 and 1970 ), Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death ( 1961 and 1976 ), Britten's War Requiem ( with Sir Peter Pears and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, conducted by the composer ; 1963 ), The Poet's Echo ( 1968 ), Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov ( 1970 and 1987 ), Puccini's Tosca ( 1976 ), Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades ( with Regina Resnik, 1976 ), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ( 1978 ), Tchaikovsky's Iolanta ( with Nicolai Gedda, 1984 ), and Prokofiev's War and Peace ( 1986 ).

In the next decade a more highbrow author Boris Akunin with his series about the 19th century sleuth Erast Fandorin became widely popular.

Erast Petrovich Fandorin () is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Boris Akunin.

Boris Akunin provides the reader with a vivid portrait of Erast Fandorin.

The serialised novels by Boris Akunin set in pre-Revolutionary Russia evolve around fictional Erast Fandorin adventures in three popular movies: The Azazel, The Turkish Gambit and The State Counsellor.

* The Winter Queen ( novel ), a novel by Boris Akunin, original title Азазель ( Azazel ), from the Erast Fandorin series

Fandorin is a fictitious Russian surname in the novels of Boris Akunin.

The movie stars George Arliss, Loretta Young, and Boris Karloff, in the biographical story of the rise of the Rothschild family of European bankers.

A few months after abandoning Zhenitba, the 29-year-old Mussorgsky was encouraged to write an opera on the story of Boris Godunov.

The film, based on a novel by Boris Pasternak, tells the story of a physician and poet ( Omar Sharif ) who falls in love with an unavailable woman named Lara ( Julie Christie ) and struggles to be with her in the chaos of the revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War.

Four years earlier, Boris Karloff starred as Mr. Darling / Captain Hook in a different musical treatment of the story, with songs by Leonard Bernstein.

* The Mummy ( 1932 film ), starring Boris Karloff, was adapted from an original story treatment by Nina Wilcox Putnam, titled " Cagliostro " for Karloff to star in.

In a non sequitur on the cartoon show Rocky and His Friends, in the Jet Fuel Formula story arc, Bullwinkle J. Moose becomes very upset when Boris Badenov steals his autographed picture of Sonny Tufts.

Written as both Boris Akunin and Grigory Chkhartishvili, the book consists of literary essays about cemeteries in different parts of the world, each accompanied by a macabre short story.

That happened within the first decade after the novel was published, but it became firmly established after the story was popularized in the famous 1930s Universal film series starring Boris Karloff.

The three most popular topics are the Pozharsky / Minin liberation of Moscow, the struggle between Boris Godunov and False Dmitry, and the story of Ivan Susanin, a peasant who was said to sacrifice himself to lead Poles away from Mikhail Romanov.

The story is loosely based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Frankenstein classic black-and-white movie featuring Boris Karloff.

* A famous short story by Robert Louis Stevenson is The Body Snatcher, with a film adaptation starring Boris Karloff.

A TIME story of October 1989 also recalled that Afanasyev " suffered a nasty embarrassment last month, when Pravda reprinted a lurid dispatch from an Italian newspaper claiming that reformist Supreme Soviet Deputy Boris Yeltsin boozed and shopped his way through a tour of the U. S ." The report noted that the newspaper was pressured into publishing an apology, although recorded video subsequently broadcast over the Soviet television " appeared to show Yeltsin at least mildly intoxicated.

The magician's desire on how to die from the beginning of the story was originally stated by Boris the bodyguard in Death: The Time of Your Life.

* The False Dmitriy's story was dramatized by Schiller ( in Demetrius ), Sumarokov, Pushkin, Khomyakov, by Modest Mussorgsky in the opera Boris Godunov and by Antonín Dvořák in his opera Dimitrij.

The screenplay was written by Boris Sobelman, based on a story by Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Joseph Pevney.

The story of murder is presumed in Aleksandr Pushkin's play Boris Godunov, made into an opera by Modest Mussorgsky.

" She does indeed do this in one episode, saying those very words to Boris as the car they were in dropped over a cliff to the ground in the 8-segmented story arc " The Treasure of Monte Zoom.

* Critical examination of Boris and Gleb's story

" The Way to Amalthea " () also known as " Destination: Amaltheia " is an early science fiction short story by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky written in 1959.

" Roog " tells the story from the point of view of a dog named Boris, who observes his master's carefully stored food in containers outside of their house day after day.

An audiobook version of the short story Young Zaphod Plays it Safe was released as Der junge Zaphod geht auf Nummer sicher on a 30 minute CD, read by Boris Aljinovic, in May 2005.

* Black Sabbath ( 1963 )-a portmanteau Italian horror film, introduced by Boris Karloff, in three segments, the last of which is based on Alexei Tolstoy's vampire story The Family of the Vourdalak ( 1839 ) about a father ( played by Karloff ) who returns to the family home as a vampire.

In 1992, Boris briefly returned to Dark Horse with a short story in the sixty-fourth issue of Dark Horse Presents.

In such episodes where a Jewish festival is celebrated, his grandfather Boris tells the related Bible story to Tommy and his friends.