The new book by Leonid Yuzefovich, a writer, historian, winner of the “Big Book” and “National Bestseller” awards, contains stories from different years, including those related to the author’s many years of historical research. He meets with the grandson of the white colonel Kazagrandi, who died in Mongolia, talks about Ungern with his German relatives, feeds a former Latvian rifleman with soup, investigates a complicated plot about the love of an Ungern officer for the Jewish woman he saved from execution... Shadows of long-dead people come into our lives, and every story from the past has a continuation in modern times.