One hundred years ago, strange and threatening events took place that cannot be forgotten, they cannot be left in the past, because without the past there is no present......And it happened that he, Doctor of Historical Sciences and Professor of Moscow University Dmitry Shakhovsky, became an expert at the State Duma He navigates the past much better than the present. When the director of a museum is killed in a mansion on Vozdvizhenka, and an antique Meissen porcelain cup and several letters from the early twentieth century are discovered next to the body, Shakhovskoy becomes involved in the investigation. To understand what happened at the crime scene, Shakhovsky needs to reconstruct the events of almost a century ago - the history of the First Duma, the defeat of a terrorist cell, the arrest of bombers. And learn and understand something else... about yourself. Perhaps he would not have recognized and would not have understood if not for Varvara Zvonkova, who captured his imagination. He will understand the intricacies of destinies, strange and mysterious coincidences. However, maybe these are not coincidences at all? How much has changed - in just a hundred years of travel...