"Welcome to our beautiful country!" - this book lures us. However, do not believe advertising slogans and glossy brochures. This country is not beautiful, but terrible, and its inhabitants are forced to resist evil or succumb to it - and it is not known which choice will be correct. Perhaps there is no right choice at all. After all, the Underground Sea splashes even under the land streets of Moscow. And who knows what kind of creatures sleep there, in the depths... Every book by Maria Galina becomes an event, and this is that rare case when a writer is considered “one of their own” both in science fiction and in great literature. Her bewitching stories capture and do not let go, like scary and beautiful fairy tales heard in childhood and remembered for a lifetime. Like the talisman “Chicken God” warmed by the sun, which we keep all our lives, not understanding why - until its time comes...