With this book - the ninth in a row, posthumous - the publishing house is forced to complete the long-term personal series “The Prose of Oleg Pavlov”. “Time” published in collections or individual works everything that was written to them: “In Godless Lanes” (2007), “Steppe Book” (2008), “Asystole” (2010), “Time of Gethsemane” (2011), “Diary of a Hospital Security Guard” "(2012), "The State Fairy Tale" (2012), "The Matyushin Case" (2013), "Karaganda Departures, or the Tale of the Last Days" (2013). Winner of the European Angelus Prize, the Solzhenitsyn Prize and the Russian Booker, translated into many languages, Oleg Pavlov (1970–2018) is “an absolutely independent and self-sufficient figure in Russian literature: a deep, original, independent artist” (Vladislav Otroshenko).