Is it possible to combine science fiction and a fairy-tale world, alternative history (and not the only one) and philosophical prose in one novel? It is possible if the author of the novel is Yaroslav Verov. Parallel universes and secret scientific experiments, knights-errant and wizards, Russian aristocrats and modern bureaucrats. Science indistinguishable from magic, and magic masquerading as science. The eternal struggle between good and evil, great love and true hatred... Modernism in science fiction, an existential parable, a literary experiment - call it whatever you want, but this whole explosive mixture - here it is, with the short title “Doubles.”