This is a multi-vector novel, which the author himself defines as a ‘horror comedy’. This book brings together scenes of visions, family chronicles, love affairs, humorous gags and mystical insights written in a somewhat ironic key. At the center of the novel is the conflict between culture and the state in Russia. The state personifies a collective existential portrait of the ruler of modern Russia, who, sparing no one, not pitying anyone, is striving for his bloody immortality. The novel has been translated and is being translated into various languages.