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{{Short description|Russian novel by Boris Akunin}}
{{other uses|Maria Maria (disambiguation)}}
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| name              = Maria, Maria...
| title_orig        = "Мария", Мария...
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| author            = [[Boris Akunin]]
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| country           = Russia
| language          = [[Russian language|Russian]]
| series            = Brüderschaft with Death
| genre             = [[Historical mystery|Historical detective]]
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| release_date      = 2010
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| preceded_by       = [[Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble! (novel)|Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!]]
| followed_by       = [[Nothing Sacred (Akunin)|Nothing Sacred]]
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'''''Maria, Maria...''''' ({{lang-ru|"Мария", Мария...}}) is a novel by [[Boris Akunin]], the first part of the fourth book on the adventures of Russian and German spies during the [[First World War]]. It describes the dangerous adventures of Joseph von Teofels in [[Sevastopol]] in the autumn of 1916.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.delfi.lv/showtime/news/oboz/misc/boris-akunin-smert-na-brudershaft-mariya-mariya-filma-sedmaya-nichego-svyatogo-filma-vosmaya.d?id=35967779|publisher=delfi|title=Борис Акунин. Смерть на Брудершафт. Мария, Мария...: фильма седьмая. Ничего святого: фильма восьмая|date=28 December 2010}}</ref>

==Plot ==
In September 1916, Russia is preparing for a decisive turn in the course of the war. In 1914, two German warships, the battleship ''[[SMS Goeben|Goeben]]'' and the light cruiser ''[[SMS Breslau|Breslau]]'', had broken through to [[Istanbul]], forcing the neutral [[Ottoman Empire]] into the world war on Germany's side. With the [[Bosporus|Bosphorous]] controlled by the [[Central Powers]], Russia's main southern ports were cut off from her allies, and as a result, the Russian army could receive arms and ammunition from the Entente only through the northern seas, along a very long and dangerous sea route.

Deciding to break the "German-Turkish lock" on the [[Black Sea]], the [[Imperial Russian Navy]] began to build new battleships at the shipyard in [[Mykolaiv|Nikolaev]]. Very soon, the battleship ''[[Russian battleship Imperatritsa Mariya|Empress Maria]]'' was launched, and at the end of 1916 two similar battleships - the ''[[Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III|Emperor Alexander III]]'' and the ''[[Russian battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya|Empress Catherine the Great]]'' - would join the flagship. To prevent this, Josef von Teofels is sent by the German intelligence service to attempt to destroy the battleship ''Empress Maria''.

==References==
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{{Boris Akunin}}

[[Category:2010 novels]]
[[Category:Novels by Boris Akunin]]
[[Category:Russian mystery novels]]
[[Category:Historical mystery novels]]
[[Category:Detective novels]]
[[Category:Russian spy novels]]
[[Category:Novels set during World War I]]


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