This text bursts with furnace heat and pulls with grave cold — and at the same time. The novel is based on the materials of the investigative case of Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenko, director of the Moscow Crematorium on the territory of the Don Necropolis. While working on the novel, Sasha Filipenko repeated the path of the main character, following him to Saratov and Paris, Istanbul and Warsaw. A huge volume of archival documents was provided to the author by the Memorial Society. "Kremulator" is an artistic reconstruction of an absolutely amazing fate.