Fyodor Fedorovich Bulenbeitzer, the hero of Georgy Davydov’s novel “The Pied Piper,” devoted his life to the extermination of these vile rodents, embodied, in his eyes, in the guise of the Bolsheviks: “He especially appreciated the “Rat Album.” ... On each page of the album there is a photograph of the Bolshevik leader and next to it, like a reflection, is a photograph of a rat. All of them are here - caught and divided into subspecies. Lenin in a coffin among wreaths - and a dead rat with a flattened head.” His friend and antipode Ilya Polezhaev, on the contrary, is working on the idea of human longevity, and ideally, immortality.