The amazing and mysterious fate of the most famous Russian predictor of past eras, monk Abel, in the world of peasant Vasily Vasiliev, captivates the imagination. The Russian Nostradamus lived a life strikingly bright, full of adventures. Abel accurately predicted the date of Catherine II's death, the burning of Moscow by the French in 1812, and other events. Russian Russian soothsayers Recreating the fascinating story of this incredible man, the strangest of the Russian soothsayers, whose life took place in Moscow and St. Petersburg, on Valaam and Solovki, in Shlisselburg and Peter and Paul Fortress, Viktor Berdinsky looks at the Russian secrets of the XVIII - XIX centuries through his eyes and tells a lot of interesting things about the way of life and customs of that time.Viktor Berdinskikh is a writer, Doctor of Historical Sciences, author of the novel "The Russian German" and novels, several popular science books.