Alexey Varlamov - prose writer, philologist, rector of the A.M. Gorky. Author of the novels "My Soul Pavel", "Loch", the story "Birth", biographies of Mikhail Prishvin, Alexander Green, Alexei Tolstoy, Grigory Rasputin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Vasily Shukshin. Laureate of the BIG BOOK Prize, the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize and the Patriarchal Literary Prize.Aleksey Varlamov considers the novel The Mental Wolf "a personal attempt to speak out about the Silver Age." The writer chose one of the most poignant moments in Russian history - "the abyss on the edge" - from the summer of 1914 to the winter of 1918. Heroes live and die in it, in which famous personalities are guessed: Grigory Rasputin, Vasily Rozanov, Mikhail Prishvin, the scandalous defrocked hieromonk Iliodor and the sectarian Shchetinkin| real and fictional events interfere. The characters of the novel love - in a very Russian way, with a fatal passion - they argue and philosophize about the nature of the Russian person, permissiveness, Nietzsche, the future of the country and about ... the mental wolf - a terrible charming beast that invaded Russia and became the cause of its troubles ...