The third, after the Textbook of Drawing and The Red Light— is a novel by Maxim Kantor. "Brother's Watchmaker" is an epic, a broad historical canvas, a great Russian novel. A group of foreign specialists is leaving for Moscow in early 2022. Each of them has their own purpose for this trip, but it soon turns out that the true goals are far from the stated ones, and not at all the profile they were talking about from the very beginning. The International, assembled in a cozy carriage, is trapped in the middle of a snowy steppe on the expanses of the Central Russian Upland. The composition of this group, and Mark Richter, is a historian without a department, a husband without a family, he goes to Moscow to meet with his brother, with whom he quarreled many years ago. The closer the train gets to the Russian border, the closer the fateful date of February 24th is...