The new novel by the famous prose writer and poet Evgeny Abdullaev, writing under the pseudonym Sukhbat Aflatuni, covers a huge period in the history of Russia: from the mid-19th century to the present day - and tells the story of the Triyarsky family, whose founder, a young architect of progressive views, Nikolai , was close to Petrashevsky’s revolutionary circle and the secret society of “magi”, but was persecuted by the ruling emperor. Nicholas was exiled to Kyrgyzstan, where he really encountered the “people” for whose sake he was launching the coup, but he did not know the “people” at all. And Nicholas’s own sister, Varvara, became the emperor’s mistress and gave birth to a child from the tsar in order to save her brother from execution... A complex family and love drama is superimposed on the drama of a country that has moved from monarchy to democracy and the Red Terror. And all this is combined with the exciting biblical story of the birth of Jesus, which, like a mirror, reflects the terrible modern times... Aflatuni’s stunning poetic writing style puts his work on a par with the novels of Evgeny Vodolazkin and Alexander Ilichevsky.