A hundred years ago, there were strange and threatening events that cannot be forgotten, they cannot be left in the past, because without the past there is no present. … And it pleased him, Doctor of Historical Sciences and Professor of Moscow University Dmitry Shahovsky, to become an expert at the State Duma .. In the past, it is oriented much better than in the present .. When the director of the museum is killed in the mansion on Vozdvizhenka, and an old cup of Meissen porcelain and several letters of the early twentieth century are discovered next to the body, Shahovskaya is involved in an investigation. To understand what happened at the crime scene, Shahovsky needs to restore the events of almost a century ago the history of the first Duma, the defeat of the terrorist cell, the arrest of the subversives. And one more thing to know and understand... about yourself. Perhaps he did not know and would not have understood, if it were not for Varvara Zvonkov, who struck his imagination. He will understand the intricacies of fate, in strange and mysterious coincidences. However, maybe this is not a coincidence at all? How much has changed just in a hundred years of travel...