The new book by St. Petersburg prose writer Andrei Stolyarov is written in the rare genre of “fantastic realism”. This is not science fiction in the usual sense of the word: there are no gravitational planes, star wars or space aliens here. The author continues the traditions of “magical St. Petersburg prose”, laid down by Gogol and Dostoevsky, he modernizes them, giving the phantasmagoria the sound of everyday life. Fantastic St. Petersburg, where the most incredible events are possible: a fantastic world at the end of the second millennium: mysticism turning into reality, and reality turning to us with its mystical side: Andrei Stolyarov is the author of new St. Petersburg prose.