The Egyptian Woman

In St. Petersburg there’s a legend that the sphinxes on Universitetskaya Embankment are alive! But native Petersburger Petya Chumikin doesn’t believe it. Petya is a reputable young man working part-time as a guide at a tour bureau. His life goes on as usual… until he meets a strange Egyptian woman. And everything suddenly turns into a fantastic jumble, while the stone sphinxes begin to look at Petya with human eyes! Yes, yes—sphinxes are alive; more precisely, within them for three thousand years a soul split in two of a young pharaoh has been trapped. Saving her—and at the same time uncovering the grand secret of St. Petersburg—falls to an ordinary-looking boy living on Aptekarskiy Lane.