A news article about Vilen Borshevik was evidence in Ryunosuke Naruhodo's investigation into an incident involving Kazuma Asogi on the SS Burya.
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The article was on the front page of a newspaper served to various guests on the steamship, including Herlock Sholmes, and contained various details about Borshevik. It reported that Borshevik had fled Russia through Shanghai, which the ship had recently passed by.
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When Asogi's body was initially found, Sholmes saw that Asogi had apparently written a message on the floor reading "ГАРДЕРОБ", the Russian word for "wardrobe", and connected this to the article about Borshevik, even claiming Naruhodo to be the revolutionary assassin in the flesh, despite them looking nothing alike. He later encountered Grimesby Roylott in the cabin next to Asogi's, and claimed him to be the actual Borshevik, despite any resemblance being very superficial (as he was wearing a similar hat and dark glasses, and was sporting a large beard). However Naruhodo stepped in and fixed Sholmes's reasoning by looking more closely at Roylott and his cabin, leading to the conclusion that "Roylott" was actually Nikolina Pavlova. It turned out that Pavlova had also escaped Russia through Shanghai on the previous night.
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