“Third-year student Kesha Palchikov had one cherished dream.No, of course, there were other dreams, for example, to become a great surgeon and learn how to sew long-torn off limbs to workers of his native railway depot| or meet your beloved girl on the path of life and go with her to rest on Lake Chad. But these were just dreams, and the cherished one was only one: to get to the bottom of one's roots, to one's distant ancestors. To the ancestors. Using the method of questioning the next of kin, Kesha managed to clarify only the full names of one grandfather and two grandmothers, but his grandmothers were of little interest to him, because one had the surname Alekseev, and the other Nikolaev. It's all boring. Only the line of his paternal grandfather, also Innokenty Dmitrievich, really fascinated young Innokenty ... "