This is a historical novel, an adventure novel, a parody novel, an action-packed detective story, a biography, an alternative history, a western, a little poetry... This is not a variation on the theme of “what could have been,” but a sad and ironic statement: “soon it will be it seems that it was so.” In short: this is a novel about everything except Pushkin. And the fact that Pushkin turned out to be the main character in this book does not matter at all. In short, this is a continuation of the adventures of the secret agent of the College of Foreign Affairs A. Pushkin in the south of the empire. The Turkish spy continues to elude, war is approaching, Pushkin increasingly doubts whether he has chosen the right side, and yet he himself and many of his friends become part of a big political game, from which it would seem impossible to get out...