In the new book by Vyacheslav Manyagin, a mosaic of stories, essays and articles has formed a bizarre, semi-fantastic chronicle of our life on the threshold of the Apocalypse - whatever it may be: biblical, nuclear or humanitarian. The world is like the Divine theater of one Spectator, where we play ourselves on the stage of history, striving for its end - this is the thought that unites the colored glass pieces of the picture that the author puts together, different in genre, but uniform in direction. Does our future depend on us? Does God understand man? Is revolution possible in Russia? Or is our country facing a fascist dictatorship? Why does free will inevitably lead to sin? And is it true that God is love? Answering these questions is like walking barefoot along a razor blade and not getting cut. But the author at least tried to do it.