A stylish series by the fashionable author of retro detectives Nikolai Svechin. Afisha magazine called Svechin the hope of a Russian detective! A bright alternative to B. Akunin. The book will be a gift for all connoisseurs of the action-packed genre!Nikolay Svechin is one of the most famous authors of historical detectives, a nominee of the Russian Detective Award and a leader in his niche.Svechin's most famous series is a series about the investigations of Alexey Lykov. She has more than 20 novels and collections, each of which has a separate crime story, but recognizable characters. The effect of an action-packed series.Summer of 1879. The famous Nizhny Novgorod Fair attracts not only merchants and industrialists from all over the Russian Empire, but also criminals of all stripes — the richest fair attracts swindlers, thieves, murderers like a magnet... Already the day before its opening, the first corpse was found. A page from the precious manuscript of Archpriest Avvakum was found in the heel of an unknown person, which is being hunted by both dissenters and robbers from the gang of the Axis of the Murderer. The best police forces have been thrown into the search for criminals, but the case turns out to be incredibly difficult, it cannot be solved, and the brutal murders continue...