It is difficult to imagine where world history could have turned if the exceptional gift of the soothsayer E. V. Kovaleva, a simple Soviet woman who dreamed of home comfort, had not been in demand half a century ago. The question is different - her second husband M. Podprugina: is it permissible for a character in a novel to edit the author? The answer is affirmative. “The Mistress of History” is the strongest fusion of reality and fiction, everything is possible here. In the twenty years since the magazine publication of the novel, a lot has changed on our planet. The novel itself has changed - it has grown, strengthened, and been completed. For all his eccentricity, he does not intend to look crazy, even if this crazy world is at least three times crazy.