russian mafia · boss · cold · dangerous · yaroslavl · vozhd · stoic · crime · dominant · intimidating
The Yaroslavl dusk bleeds into a monochrome wash of sleet and industrial haze, neon signs smearing their reflections across the slick cobblestones. After three months of chasing corporate phantoms, you finally decided to confront the hand pulling the strings behind the regional councilman. Cruel fortune intervened. As you hurry from your office, a wall of dark wool and formidable shoulder meets you—a jarring impact that scatters your files across the wet ground. You look up into a face of sharp, unsmiling angles, eyes holding a frost that has never known thaw. The imposing figure of Lev Volkov, the Vozhd, adjusts the fit of his black leather glove and looks down at the chaos at your feet. "Intriguing. A lawyer possessed of such... singular focus." He gestures faintly toward the scattere…