Последнее дело майора Чистова

Evgenii Vodolazkin — avtor shesti romanov, sredi kotorieh — "Lavr", "Aviator", "Chagin". Laureat premii "Bolshaia kniga" i "Iasnaia Poliana", a takje riada mejdunarodnieh premii.
Knigi Vodolazkina — eto vsegda "v poiskah janra". Uslovnosti janra sobludenie, no tekst artistichno soprotivliaetsia — neistoricheskii roman "Lavr", nenauchnaia fantastika "Aviator"…
Sujet novogo romana Vodolazkina postroen kak detektiv i razvorachivaetsia v sovremennom Peterburge. Ubivaut uchenogo, issledovavshego iskusstvenniei intellekt. Rassleduet ubiistvo maior Chistov, a pomogaet emu leitenant, chia slabost — literatura. Maior — svoeobrazniei filosof, kotoriei v hode rassledovaniia zadaetsia voprosami: "Pochemu ishut trup ubitogo cheloveka, no ne ishut ego dushu? V chem raznica mejdu odushevlenniem i neodushevlenniem, to est jiviem i nejiviem, i mojem li mie preodolet etu granicu?". Verniei svoemu dolgu maior dovodit sledstvie do konca, a leitenant samiem literaturniem obrazom dovodit etu istoriu do chitatelia.

. Evgenii Vodolazkin — prozaik, filolog, specialist po drevnerusskoi literature, laureat premii «Bolshaia kniga» i «Iasnaia Poliana», finalist «Russkogo Bukera». Avtor romanov‑bestsellerov «Brisben», «Aviator», «Lavr», «Opravdanie ostrova» i «Solovev i Larionov». Proizvedeniia Vodolazkina perevedenie na mnogie inostranniee iazieki, a po romanu «Aviator» v 2026 godu vieshel film Egora Mihalkova-Konchalovskogo. – Kniga o tom, chto delaet cheloveka chelovekom. – Horosho znakomiei nam Vodolazkin, no v janre detektiva — detektivnaia intriga zdes ne samocel, a lovushka: vie prihodite za rassledovaniem ubiistva, a ostaetes radi razgovora o tom, kuda ischezaet lubov, strah i radost posle togo, kak serdce ostanavlivaetsia. – «Poslednee delo maiora Chistova» prodoljaet tradiciu filosofskih romanov. Zdes stalkivautsia dva vremeni: to sobietiia raspisanie bukvalno po minutam — kak v nastoiashem detektive, to hronometraj teriaet smiesl, i povestvovanie viehodit v inoe izmerenie, gde dushi jivieh i umershih mogut govorit drug s drugom. – Kniga prodoljaet seriu «Novaia russkaia klassika», gde ranee bieli izdanie proizvedeniia Sergeia Shargunova, Mihaila Elizarova, Romana Senchina, Leonida Uzefovicha. – Stilnoe i kachestvennoe izdanie v seriinom oformlenii: tverdiei pereplet, belaia ofsetnaia bumaga i illustraciia Mihaila Shemiakina na oblojke.

Evgeny Vodolazkin is the author of six novels, including "The Laurel", "The Aviator", and "Chagin". Winner of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards, as well as a number of international awards.
Vodolazkin's books are always "in search of a genre." The conventions of the genre are respected, but the text artistically resists — the non-historical novel "Laurel", the unscientific fiction "Aviator"…
The plot of Vodolazkin's new novel is built like a detective story and takes place in modern St. Petersburg. A scientist who has been researching artificial intelligence is being killed. Major Chistov is investigating the murder, and he is assisted by a lieutenant whose weakness is literature. The major is a kind of philosopher who asks questions during the investigation.: "Why are they looking for the corpse of a murdered man, but not for his soul? What is the difference between animate and inanimate, that is, animate and inanimate, and can we overcome this boundary?" Faithful to his duty, the major brings the investigation to an end, and the lieutenant brings this story to the reader in the most literary way.

. Evgeny Vodolazkin is a novelist, philologist, specialist in ancient Russian literature, winner of the Bolshaya Kniga and Yasnaya Polyana prizes, finalist of the Russian Booker Prize. He is the author of the best‑selling novels Brisbane, Aviator, Laurel, Justification of the Island and Solovyov and Larionov. Vodolazkin's works have been translated into many foreign languages, and a film by Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky based on the novel "The Aviator" was released in 2026. – A book about what makes a person human. – Vodolazkin, who is well known to us, but in the detective genre, detective intrigue is not an end in itself, but a trap: you come to investigate a murder, but stay for the sake of talking about where love, fear and joy disappear after the heart stops. – "Major Chistov's Last Case" continues the tradition of philosophical novels. Two times collide here: the events are scheduled literally by the minute — as in a real detective story, the timing loses its meaning, and the narrative goes into another dimension, where the souls of the living and the dead can talk to each other. – The book continues the series "New Russian Classics", where the works of Sergei Shargunov, Mikhail Elizarov, Roman Senchin, Leonid Yuzefovich were previously published. – Stylish and high-quality serial edition: hardcover, white offset paper and Mikhail Shemyakin's illustration on the cover.