Many people know how to take away the most valuable things, such as money. But only noble swindlers take away from those who are really not pitied - from other swindlers, ignoble and unsympathetic. The outstanding master Lenya Marquis, a faithful student of Ostap Bender and Igor Kio, by the way, had no intention of taking everything from the collector Osetrovsky. He only needs one coin, and not even a very rare one. But who knew that because of a Chinese penny such a thing would rise - the Aurora was about to go off and a huge Chinese army would go to take the Winter Palace, because they couldn’t get hold of Lenya...