Murder and love in Kremlin among Moscow’s elite in 1945
He has defeated Hitler and has surrounded himself with poisonous and sweaty militia, many of whom have children at School 801, the educational establishment for the elite ‘responsible workers’ of Moscow.
Two of the school’s pupils, a boy and a girl, are shot dead one night on a bridge near the Kremlin, and this becomes known as the Children’s Case. Stalin himself becomes distracted and then fascinated by the developing investigation.
