Captain Ksenia Rolanovna
There is a famous Russian expression: "a woman like that stops a galloping horse, enters a burning hut" («коня на скаку остановит, в горящую избу войдет»), which describes a strong, fearless, and resilient woman. My protagonist —Ksenia (Rolanovna) Starikova in The Kamchatka Incident is perhaps a bit like this — a strong woman who wants to solve a mysterious case. Petropavlovsk (PK), where she was born, is the capital city of Kamchatka, situated on a peninsula of land between the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk—and it's a remote place. Kamchatka is a place of endless, rugged beauty, where volcanoes rise like living giants and cold winds sweep across icy plains. People call it the land of fire and ice, which is fitting—but the volcanoes aren't just scenery to her; they are alive, unpredictable, and woven into the identity of everyone who lives beneath them. Of course, Ksenia has ordinary everyday goals and mundane responsibilities which she tries to balance out as ...
