The action of this inventive novel in the genre of Russian fantasy takes place in a parallel world where the almighty Koschey the Immortal, his mistress Elena the Beautiful, Tsarina Marya Morevna, her stepson Ivan Tsarevich, the pirate Nightingale the Robber and other fairy-tale characters live. It seemed that we had known many of them since childhood, but only now their characters and desires are revealed in an adult way. Fairy-tale heroes love and save, weave intrigues and take revenge, seize enemy lands and form alliances. Their dangerous adventures also involve ordinary people who have entered the fairy-tale world: young policemen and teenager Kostya, who decided to postpone returning home in order to study at the school of witchcraft... The struggle for power in fairy-tale reality is no less acute than here on Earth. Will “gifts” from our world help the heroes defend their interests? After all, now fairy-tale warriors are armed with machine guns and Makarov pistols - in addition to ancient swords, flying dragons and, of course, magic.