The new novel by Sergei Alekseev will immerse the reader in the times of Alexander the Great, when the world was divided into civilization and barbarism, enlightenment and savagery. But what is real culture - fine arts and philosophy or primordial knowledge, customs and traditions?.. And why the daring attempt of the great commander, who launched a campaign to the East, to unite two worlds in order to defeat the barbarism of Persia, Great Skoufi, India and establish not only his own power in the world, but also the enlightenment of Hellas, ended with his return in a barrel of honey, which was then used for embalming? Why did his teacher, the great philosopher Aristotle, force his student to burn the sacred copy of the Avesta, captured in Persepolis - the sacred capital of Persia, and condemned him to fire also Indian Vedas and other ancient knowledge? And in whose hands were the conqueror of the world and the thinker who freed the spiritual space of humanity to establish his philosophy just toys?.. The great master of intrigue and words will reveal many sacred secrets in the novel.