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Ispolni͡aetsi͡a sorok dneĭ s togo momenta, kak bandity v kvartire generala Voront͡sova zastrelili ego starinnogo druga, polkovnika KGB Aleksandra Lukova. Voront͡sov priglashaet na pominki starshego sledovateli͡a Valina i daet emu prochitatʹ ocherednui͡u tetradʹ vospominaniĭ Zagorskogo....Komandir Otdelʹnogo korpusa zhandarmov, general-leĭtenant Tolmachev na pravakh starogo znakomstva prosit Zagorskogo pomochʹ rassledovatʹ odno strannoe delo, svi͡azannoe s arkheologicheskimi raskopkami. Ostzeĭskiĭ nemet͡s bron Roman fon Shtorn otpravilsi͡a s ėkspedit͡sieĭ v T͡Sarit͡synskiĭ uezd, v derevni͡u Rozumikhino. Vo vremi͡a raskopok propadaet rabotavshiĭ na nego ėstonet͡s Magnus Saar. Pozzhe na beregu mestnogo lesnogo ozera nakhodi͡at obryvki ego okrovavlennoĭ odezhdy. Pribyvshiĭ rassledovatʹ delo zhandarmskiĭ sledovatelʹ Persefonov spusti͡a nekotoroe vremi͡a tozhe propadaet bessledno.

Forty days have passed since bandits shot dead his old friend, KGB Colonel Alexander Lukov, in General Vorontsov's apartment. Vorontsov invites senior investigator Valin to the wake and gives him another notebook of Zagorsky's memoirs to read....The commander of a Separate corps of gendarmes, Lieutenant General Tolmachev, on the rights of an old acquaintance, asks Zagorsky to help investigate a strange case related to archaeological excavations. The Ostsee German Bron Roman von Storn went on an expedition to Tsaritsyn county, to the village of Rozumikhino. During the excavations, an Estonian Magnus Saar, who worked for him, disappears. Later, scraps of his bloody clothes are found on the shore of a local forest lake. The gendarme investigator Persephonov, who arrived to investigate the case, also disappears without a trace after a while.