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1* Nikolai stabbing Konstantin InTheBack as the ''Potemkin'' goes down over St. Petersburg, taking out the Tsar's {{sculpture|s}} of his own face. Granted, he survives, but to get the drop on a man who is a literal walking nuke is incredibly impressive.
2* Katarina Dante's DyingMomentOfAwesome, where she shoots Dmitri with the Huntsman. Especially karmic, considering that he raped her years before.
3* Erstwhile Tsar Vladimir Makarov's [[DyingMomentOfAwesome final exit]] from the story - a game of RussianRoulette with Nikolai, copious amounts of vodka, and some heavy philosophical debate about TheChainsOfCommanding and how PowerCorrupts that leaves the latter [[HannibalLecture visibly shaken.]]
4* Nikolai's duel with [[MasterSwordsman Caius Zacharovich]]. After winning every fight he got into thus far by, shall we say, [[CombatPragmatist using his wits]], Nikolai runs into the one opponent who is so skilled that no amount of cheating comes even close to levelling the playing field. Zacharovich even takes some time off from kicking Nikolai's ass to give him some advice on swordfighting which our hero [[TookALevelInBadass duly takes to heart]]; for the remainder of the series, no other opponent, save for Caius' protégé Jena Makarov, comes even close to besting Nikolai Dante in a straight-up swordfight.

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