In this particular adventure, Lepski has to recover a priceless Russian icon that hasn't left Russia since an unknown artist mode it during the reign of Catherine the Great. Under orders of his employers, International Fidelity who insured the icon for 12 Million Dollars, Lepski has to find the missing piece that was stolen while on view in a Nice exhibition entitled "Three Centuries of Rus-sian Art". The statue is only eight by ten inches, and so Lepski's task is difficult at best. Of course the infamous Hermann Radnitz, International industrialist who specializes in Russian affairs is extremely interested in the icon. So too is Claude Kendrich, owner of fashionable art galleries around Europe, who craves the piece but ralizes that he will never have the means to possess it