This story began centuries ago. But the time has come for old secrets and ancient riddles. Dasha, a modern St. Petersburg resident fascinated by Japanese culture, decided to visit a new exhibition in the Hermitage, where ancient netsuke figurines were presented to the public. Immersed in the enchanting atmosphere of the East, the girl did not notice how her life left its usual course and rushed towards adventure. Now only Dasha can penetrate centuries-old secrets, cut the “Gordian knot” and find out what connection exists between the past and the present, between Japan, France and Russia, between the realities of the twenty-first century and the intrigues at the court of the Sun King. A mysterious and intriguing plot, in the course of which the boundaries of time are erased, will spin you in a whirlpool of incredible discoveries on the pages of Olga Kotina’s book “Keychain and Counterweight.”