The novel by the famous writer Elena Chudinova, author of the bestseller “Notre Dame Mosque,” is dedicated to the most fateful period of our history - the revolution and the Civil War. Sergei Rzhevsky receives a mysterious gift from his older brother - an ancient pectoral cross created by the first Christians. The mysterious symbol links together events and times: Ancient Egypt and the resistance of the White Guard, Viking raids and the camp stages of the Turukhansk region, the intrigues of the Russian Masonic lodges of the 18th century and the struggle of the counter-revolutionary underground in Petrograd. The Holder of the Sign must make a painful choice between light and darkness, humility and strength, good and evil in the name of saving Russia... On the pages of a novel full of secrets and mysteries, you will meet the poet Gumilyov and Egyptologist Golenishchev, the psychiatrist Dahl and the archbishop-surgeon Luka (Voino -Yasenetsky) and with many others, whose lives became legends, forever changing Russian history and culture.