Золотое сердце Вавилона

Tysi͡achi let nazad v velichaĭshem gorode mira Vavilone shumeli mnogoli͡udnye rynki, ti͡anulasʹ k nebu Vavilonskai͡a bashni͡a, t͡sveli i blagoukhali visi͡achie sady Semiramidy, a v mnogochislennykh khramakh mudrye zhret͡sy izuchali voli͡u zvezd i sostavli͡ali lekarstva ot vsekh bolezneĭ. No vse v ėtom mire imeet svoe nachalo i svoĭ konet͡s, i so vremenem zvezda Vavilona zakatilasʹ. Zhiteli proslavlennogo goroda razbrelisʹ po vsemu miru, no koe-kto sokhranil pami͡atʹ o nem na mnogie veka i ne poteri͡al nadezhdu vosstanovitʹ rodinu, berezhno khrani͡a i peredavai͡a iz pokolenii͡a v pokolenie svi͡ashchennye relikvii t͡sentra Drevnego mira. Odnako vse ėto vremi͡a za artefaktami velasʹ neustannai͡a okhota priverzhent͡sami khaldeĭskogo boga Ar-Zakaĭi͡a, inache nazyvaemogo Angelom Smerti, no ne dli͡a togo, chtoby vozroditʹ bylui͡u slavu Vavilona, a dli͡a togo, chtoby ozhivitʹ svoe krovavoe bozhestvo.V ėpit͡sentre mnogovekovoĭ borʹby za obladanie svi͡ashchennymi relikvii͡ami okazalasʹ obychnai͡a peterburzhenka Antonina Gusakova. Poluchiv v nasledstvo ot neizvestnoĭ eĭ rodstvennit͡sy antikvarnyĭ magazin v t͡sentre Pitera, ona stolknulasʹ s presledovaniem so storony raznykh podozritelʹnykh lichnosteĭ…

Thousands of years ago, crowded markets were noisy in the world's greatest city Babylon, the Tower of Babel stretched to the sky, the hanging gardens of Semiramis bloomed and smelled fragrant, and in numerous temples wise priests studied the will of the stars and made medicines for all diseases. But everything in this world has its beginning and its end, and over time the star of Babylon has set. The inhabitants of the famous city scattered all over the world, but some have preserved the memory of it for many centuries and have not lost hope of restoring their homeland, carefully preserving and passing on from generation to generation the sacred relics of the center of the Ancient World. However, all this time, the artifacts were relentlessly hunted by the adherents of the Chaldean god Ar-Zakaya, otherwise called the Angel of Death, but not in order to revive the former glory of Babylon, but in order to revive their bloody deity.In the epicenter of the centuries-old struggle for the possession of sacred relics was an ordinary Petersburger Antonina Gusakova. Having inherited an antique shop in the center of St. Petersburg from an unknown relative, she faced persecution from various suspicious individuals…