“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven,” said Christ in the Sermon on the Mount. Repina’s hero, the librarian Leo, is a modern holy fool who, at 32 years old, has not touched a woman, but understands birds and animals. Lev is obsessed with the fate of the poet of Mandelstam's circle, Kliment Syzrantsev, and gradually becomes close to the inhabitants of the poet's museum-apartment. One day a terrible truth is revealed... The novel shocks with its insight into the most hidden mechanisms of a sick soul. Seeing the familiar world through the eyes of the blessed is an amazing experience. For those who are close to the prose of Alla Gorbunova, Maria Stepanova and Marianna Ionova.