Angel's bite. Krusanov P.V.

Once, somewhere on the idylic forest road, the mysterious old man gave young Ivan Nekitaev, the son of a Russian officer and Chinese hunchus, a magical burning talisman-an artifact who himself chose the future ruler of the state.

since those Pores began his inexorable path to power and glory. To blindly jealousy, a lover of his own sister - the moonlit Fairy Van Ziden, a fearless and hardened warrior in the battles, the Governor of Constantinople and the Hesperia Consul, secretly led by his henchman Peter Light Steppe - he will not stop at anything.

The Russian Empire, who knew the turmoil, divided in two and collected again, must finally find his emperor...

The modernist novel of the St. Petersburg writer Pavel Krusanov came out at the very beginning of the new millennium (2000) And he divided critics and readers into two camps. Someone was indignant at his frank “imperiality” and naturalism, while others admired the bold stylization and deep symbolism of the text.

In any case, you have a chic sample of Russian anti -utopia and mystical realism of the new century. With all their transformations, wandering in mirrors with troubled souls, Tarot's layouts, languid tea drinks on the veranda of the estate, philosophical notebooks, terrible rituals and the treacherous smell of ylang...