A "alchemic" novel Arcadia Ровнера narrates about the fate of the scientist-assyriology Nikolay, stolen from his home town by Pomegranate wind and becoming the participant of expedition on the islands of celestial archipelago to Maqams. A classic adventure plot reminding the best pages of Edgar Poe, Даниеля of Дефо and Рене Домаля, takes feeling of involvement to secret forces that fill Universe and determine fates hero of novel. Roman is turned to the reader searching itself in the anxious world of the washed out coordinates and vanishing reference-points.