Legendary Khazaria and modern Russia... Analogies and allusions - won't Russia share the sad fate of the Khazar Kaganate? The author assures that Khazaria is alive to this day, and Itil played no less a role in Russian history than ancient Kyiv. In a country that, like Khazaria, is located at the fatal crossroads of two worlds, East and West, this crossroads is present in everyone. Each of us carries within us this ancestral, unfermented two-bloodedness. Hoary exotic antiquity and a deep panorama of today's life, love and death, strong folk characters and tragic circumstances, life-long separations and the bitterness of exile - perhaps for the first time in the work of Georgy Pryakhin, along with philosophical generalizations and with sad self-irony, a sharp, almost detective plot and a fantastic subtext of very real events appear.