The artist Vrubel loved the Talashkino estate with all his soul, where he often visited the philanthropist Princess Maria Tenisheva. It was there that he painted his painting “The Flying Demon” and it was there that the painting was lost for many years... Elena Schwartz, who brought her students on an excursion to Talashkino, accidentally discovers the corpse of a young man with a newspaper sheet in his mouth, rolled up in the form of a cigarette. It soon becomes clear that the murdered man is a restorer who came to restore the temple. His grandfather was the famous Soviet artist Alexander Tiunov, a graduate of the Talashkin school, opened for peasant children by the mistress of the estate...