The historical novel “Dogma of Blood” is based on real events that attracted the attention of all of Russia and the whole world. In March 1911, the body of teenager Andrei Yushchinsky was discovered in a cave on the outskirts of Kyiv. The mysterious murder gave rise to accusing the Jews of committing a ritual crime. The author skillfully recreates the course of the investigation, which was accompanied by the elimination of witnesses, and in the epilogue, with the help of archival documents, he names the name of the killer, which remained unknown to contemporaries.