In the provincial town of Pavlovo, a strange thing is happening: a famous scientist-historian was killed, and from his house with rare icons and expensive equipment, a mysterious thief took... only a piece of an ancient idol, the head of a wooden sculpture of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa. “The Mahogany Man” - a trip to a secret world where neither laws nor logic work; where there is only passion and a painful search for an ideal. “The Mahogany Man” is a paradoxical story of the transformation of death into love, suffering into hope. This is an attempt, perhaps for the first time in Russian literature, to reveal the secrets of the union and fusion of Slavic paganism with Orthodox Christianity. And, of course, this is a dispute with God. Because man, created in the likeness of God, cannot help but come into conflict with his creator. Contains obscene language!