Nikolai Dante was a comic book series published in the weekly British science fiction anthology 2000 AD from March 1997 until July 2012.

[1] In the 27th century after a resurgent Imperial Russia has seized control of Earth and an interstellar domain, Dante, a swashbuckling young thief and ladies' man, discovers he is an illegitimate scion of the Romanov Dynasty, aristocratic rivals to the Tsar.

Dmitri's underhanded political maneuvering prompts his war between the Makarov and Romanov dynasties, despite Jena's and Dante's attempts to prevent it, and the lovers break off their burgeoning romance.

Imprisoned and tortured, Dante escapes from jail with the help of Jena, and the two renew their relationship and raise an army of thieves and whores to win a revolutionary war against the tsar.

He tightens his grip on the empire, planning to marry Jena and execute Vladimir on their wedding day, Dante fights the same war against a different enemy.

British computer games company and comic book publisher Rebellion Developments collected the entire saga into a series of trade paperbacks.

The first novel, The Strangelove Gambit, details Dante's misadventures as a tutor in a boarding school for young ladies that hides a deadly secret.