The quiet, thoughtful alleys of the famous “Russian” cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Sainte-Genevieve are conducive to peace and reflection on the eternal.

But the silence is deceptive. A chance meeting at one of the ancient tombstones turns the life of a successful Russian entrepreneur into a living hell. The past suddenly opens its doors to him, and a series of tragic events awaits him.

The present day and the distant past are mysteriously intertwined on the pages of the novel. St. Petersburg, welcoming the fateful year of 1917, the bloody massacres of the “knights of the revolution” in 1920, modern Paris and a destroyed ancient monastery lost in the steppe expanses of southern Russia, keeping in its ruins a terrible secret, the solution of which will have to pay more than one human life. ..