Red tree. Rubanov A.V.

They are like people, only made of strong wood.

There are few of them, they are hiding.

Their life is a secret.

Once, 300 years ago, they were called the “idols”

and destroyed almost everyone; Few survived.

In the provincial city of Pavlovo, a strange thing occurs: a well-known scientist-historian was killed, and a mysterious thief took a mysterious thief from his house with rare icons and expensive technology... Only a piece of ancient idol, the head of the wooden sculpture of Paraskeva Friday.

“a man from a red tree” - a trip to the secret world, where neither laws nor logic work; Where there is only passion and painful search for the ideal.

“A man of red tree” is a paradoxical story of the transformation of death into love, suffering - in hope.

This is an attempt - perhaps for the first time in Russian literature - - the disclosure of the secrets of the union and fusion of Slavic paganism with Orthodox Christianity.

And, of course, this is a dispute with God. Because a person created according to the likeness of God cannot but come into conflict with his creator.