Sergey Kuznetsov is a prose writer, journalist, and cultural trader. Author of the novels Living and Adults, Butterfly Skin, Kaleidoscope: Consumables (shortlist for the NOSE and New Horizons awards), Teacher Dymov.Heroes of the novel Round Dance water" (shortlist of the Big Book Prize) - modern residents of the metropolis. They have practically nothing in common - only the departed generations of ancestors: each of them is part of one big family. But not everyone knows about it…Time, like a column of water, separates people from different eras. Among them are a Russian nobleman who became a Chekist and a shoe store salesman, a female sniper and a once talented but drunken artist, an aquarist businessman and a scientist from the sixties. There are no major or minor figures in the history of a huge family, their destinies gather in a powerful stream, drawing a bizarre pattern of Russian history of the 20th century.Contains obscene language!