Take a day - any day in world history. For example, November 1, 1993, when Great Britain entered the European Community, when Federico Fellini and River Phoenix died. A day that included a duel over mugs of chicken soup, a blackbird named Georgy Markov, a Japanese maniac, the heroic death of Trigger the fish and the entire history of England. All-conquering love and a moment of truth - the personal Damascus of every person. The extravagant novel by the popular British writer Richard Beard (b. 1967) “Damascus” is for the first time in Russian.