Great events, as they descend upon the earth, cast their shadows before them. The fire of Moscow in 1812 was an otherworldly phantasmagoria, a shadow of the coming Apocalypse โ an event as symbolic as it has been hidden from outside eyes for two centuries.
The novel "The Moscow Testament," written in the tradition of Russian mystical prose in the vein of Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" and Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita," lifts the veil of mystery, inviting the reader to understand the past and glimpse the future through the magical power of artistic imagery.