In the book by historian, poet and publicist Andrzej Ikonnikov-Galitsky, various genres and themes - from essays and dramatic scenes to biographical sketches - are intertwined into a single half-real, half-fantastic journey through the historical and modern space of St. Petersburg. The characters are poets, terrorist revolutionaries and saints, famous and little-known: Leonid Kannegiser, Vera Zasulich, Daniil Kharms, Mikhail Kuzmin, Vasily Rozanov, Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, Professor Pozdneev (Woland’s prototype), Victor Sosnora - people whose destinies are woven into contrasting pattern of Russian history and culture of the 20th century.