Counterfeit banknotes

Earl Alexander Shustova-Gorokhovsky, traveling to France in the beginning of 1812, unwittingly becomes the agent of several foreign intelligence services, including Russian and French. He has to participate in the performance of the secret orders of Tsar Alexander the First on "introduction to the clean water plots of the strangers in the form of flooding the earth fake Russian rouble banknotes, koi shaft are imported to us from Napoleonic France."
Later, as resident agent of Russian intelligence in Paris the life guards Colonel Chernyshev, the count enters into a deadly duel with the Vidocq, the first high Commissioner of the French criminal police the Surete.