St. Petersburg police captain Valery Aleksandrovich Shishkin, a criminal investigator in his youth who was seriously stabbed, has been serving as an ineffective investigator for a long time. Now he is an investigator at the district Department of Investigation for simple and non-resonant cases. And there are only two years left until retirement with full service... But man proposes, but God disposes! And away we go! This is the very beginning of my new historical fiction book series. Mysticism in the history of Russia, St. Petersburg, Tomsk, etc. I have long wanted to write about all this. Meet the first book!