“The diary of former KGB colonel Sergei Vasilyevich Trifonov was given to me by his widow. He began conducting it in the fall of 1982, when, before being discharged from service, he was undergoing treatment at a departmental sanatorium in Sochi. On October 20, dozens of football fans were killed as a result of a deadly stampede while leaving the Grand Sports Arena in Luzhniki. Interviewing the victims, Trifonov suspected that someone was orchestrating the panic. The unknown person, who had a special gift, used methods of influencing the crowd that were already familiar to him. The colonel's conclusions were not liked by his superiors and he was dismissed. While in Sochi, Sergei Vasilyevich began to investigate other strange cases of death and became increasingly inclined to think that a man named Conductor was behind the tragic events. He compared the chronicle of the secret tragedy with the facts known to him, studied the lists of those killed at the epicenter of the stampede at the stadium and guessed who was hiding under the euphonious name that continued the musical dynasty. The conductor surpassed his father the Composer, not to mention his sister Vocalist, Trifonov concluded. Based on his diary, I reconstructed the history of the Conductor..."