The novel “Nadezhda-Prime” is the birth, rise and collapse of the largest financial pyramid in the Urals in the early nineties, led by Nadezhda Korobeynikova. But in its essence, the work goes far beyond the limits of this event and will always be relevant. At that time, the name of Nadezhda Korobeynikova in the “supporting region of the power,” as the Urals was semi-officially called under Soviet rule, was no less famous than the name of Mavrodi, and her game “Nadezhda-Prime” infected hundreds of thousands of residents of the region. Everyone played it - from ordinary workers to prosecutors, police, government officials and even thieves in law and racketeers. In terms of its plot, “Nadezhda-prim” is a modern “Tale of the Goldfish”, but unlike Pushkin’s, it is bloody and phantasmagoric.