“The Anarchists”, a new novel by Alexander Ilichevsky, winner of the “Big Book” and “Russian Booker” awards, completes the quadriga under the general title “Soldiers of the Absheron Regiment”, which included the novels “Matisse”, “Perse” and “Mathematician” "Peter Solomin, a successful businessman from the new era, decides to leave the capital and settle in a quiet town on the banks of the Oka in order to fulfill his old dream of becoming an artist. His idol is Levitan, who painted several paintings here, in this picturesque area. But the quiet town turns out to be full of serious passions. Life-and-death disputes (eternal “damned Russian questions”), fatal love, secrets around the main attraction - the memorial estate of the anarchist ideologist Chausov...