The appearance of the hero of the book, as if the fairy-tale Lelya embodied, in real life fascinated, made you turn around, frozen, listening to his quiet speech. This almost epic hero is our contemporary, who miraculously appeared in provincial Novgorod at the end of the Soviet decades. He lived simultaneously in the deep past and the unknown future, stitching together these times. He brought back to us the sounds of ancient musical instruments from the past. The history of this bright, dramatic life is full of secrets and omissions, so in the book his image and even his name are largely artistically conjectured. The description of the events that took place inevitably wove into a motley memoir - historical - fantasy canvas of memory of this wonderful man - a legend.