We burned out, notre-dame. Chekalov I. D.

What is in common with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the little French immigrant, the current president of Russia, the famous artist-cartoonist and the devil himself? The answer is unexpected: the cathedral of the Parisian Mother of God. For some, a symbol of faith, for someone a view from a tourist postcard is nototre-dame for each their own. That is why, when a fire occurred in April 2019, millions of people experienced it as a personal tragedy and monitored the death of the cathedral in real time. In the debut novel by Ivan Chekalov, the Cathedral of the Parisian Mother of God serves the intersection of a variety of destinies. It combined high tragedy and black humor, grotesque and irony. Before the reader is an architectural novel: in it, each of the heroes is part of the cathedral. Someone got a spire, someone transept, and someone is destined to climb the altar.