The novel “Ave Maria” concludes a series of novels by Vaclav Michalski about the fate of the daughters of the admiral of the Russian Imperial Navy, Maria and Alexandra, which began with the novel “Spring in Carthage”, for which the writer was awarded the State Prize of Russia by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 5, 2003. Place set in a series of novels (“Spring in Carthage”, “For Lonely Everywhere the Desert”, “It Takes Two for Joy”, “Temple of Concord”, “Forgiveness Sunday”, “Ave Maria”) - Russia, USSR, Tunisia, France, Czech Republic, Portugal .Settings: 20th century.