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After retirement, Ivan Karpovych Pidiprygoda, a former filler of the Kyiv Security Department, buys a small village of Kurbany in the Romny district of Poltava province with the money he has raised, where he intends to lead a quiet life as a provincial landowner. But he quickly gets bored of the quiet life, so Ivan Karpovych willingly starts to engage in interesting cases and gradually becomes a real private detective, and then a star of adventure literature throughout the Russian Empire.