1924 . There was no World War I, and the Kingdom of Poland was part of the Russian Empire. The Ministry of Winter sends the young Warsaw mathematician Benedict Geroslavsky to Siberia to find his father there, allegedly talking to lutes, amazing creatures who came to our world with Ice after the explosion on Podkamennaya Tunguska in 1908. We will meet Nikola Tesla, Rasputin, Jzef Pisudski, industrialists, sectarians, Tungus shamans and many others, trying to answer the question. Can History Be Managed . A monumental novel by a cult Polish science fiction author, which has already received several awards in his homeland and in Europe.