The industry of gladiator fights received a rebirth with the invention of television and the advent of reality shows. The jaded spectators quickly became bored with the usual versions of the spectacle. The producers racked their brains for a while and offered the consumer a completely new entertainment. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Daria Zarubina was born in 1982 in Ivanovo. Candidate of Philological Sciences: in 2007 she defended her dissertation “Universals in Pelevin’s novel works.” Works as an editor in a newspaper and a teacher of Russian as a foreign language and speech culture at the Ivanovo State Medical Academy. Married, two children. The first science fiction publication was the story “The Mobius Strip” in the collection “The Most Important of Arts” (2009). Regular participant of Nika Perumov's master class. In 2012, in the series “Nick Perumov. Worlds" the novel "Hroft's Candle" was published, and this year another book will appear - the fantastic detective story "Nosferatu".