Denis Dragunsky is the author of the books “There is no such word”, “Bad boy”, “The gentleman with the cat”, “Five minutes of farewell”, “The third novel by the writer Abrikosov”; prose writer, master of short stories; political journalist; a journalist who wrote hundreds of columns on a variety of topics. The events in the story “The Architect and the Monk” unfold in early 1913 in the Viennese cafe Versailles. Here two people meet by chance - a middle-aged, life-beaten emigrant from Russia and a young, naive Austrian provincial, a former terrorist and future artist. After this meeting, the whole world history will go in a completely different direction...