The first published novel by the famous poet, philosopher, author of brilliant translations of Rilke, Novalis, Hoffmann, Chretien de Troyes. Scattered at first glance short stories, where animal passion and love for the Guardian Angel are intricately intertwined, strange stories about elemental spirits, the souls of the dead, spiritless doubles, the Holy Grail at a dacha near Moscow, about the terrible crimes of various evil spirits - up to the Antichrist - form a mosaic novel about how the spiritual world manifests itself in our everyday life and what happens if we do not notice it. The reader finally becomes aware of the beginning the story of the mystic investigator Averyan, who has already become famous. The novel was written with the financial support of Alfa-Bank and the Moscow Literary Fund.