“There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet,” said the Grand Duke of Kiev Vladimir Svyatoslavovich. And he circumcised Rus' with sword and fire. But the Russian lands were located on the very far periphery of both the Muslim and Christian worlds, and even the Russian faith turned out to be not entirely correct. Pagan remnants, borrowings from neighboring peoples and their own idea of the role of Rus'. Well, Russians can’t live like everyone else. In 1931, a famous Russian journalist returns from the Middle East. Another aggravation of the international situation in Europe begins. And he also has his own ideas about what is right and true. Views that sometimes differ from state ones.