A gunsmith from Milan. Ponson du Terrail P.A.

Italy, XVI century. The orphan orphan Raphael, becoming a master of the blade in the gunsmith's family, feels that he was born for something more exalted. In his heart his dream is at all costs to reveal the secret of his birth. But the fatal duel greatly complicates his plans, and fatal love becomes his guiding star. The young man goes to the main Babylon of Europe, the concentration of passions and intrigues - to Paris. It is there that he will be an unraveling in the secret, which will turn out to be the most terrible West in his fate.

In the next volume of “adventure masters”, Roman Ponson du Terrail “Armor from Milan” is included. This episode from the time of the youth of Catherine Medici is one of the overtures (and several of them) to the future epic of the writer about friends and enemies of the forever young king Henry of Navarre. The novel is also one of the books, whose initial title, “cloak and sword”, gave the name to the entire historical and adventure genre. The publication includes three dozen original illustrations. In Russian is published for the first time.