The novel “Якоже и мы” by Alexander Mineev, the author of the novella “Русский рух,” plays “Поезд через Краснореченск,” “Quorum,” and other literary works, is written in the genre of historical detective fiction. Closely intertwined events from the early 1930s and the late 1950s pull into the whirlpool of history completely different people. The novel follows the traditions of enlightenment in Russian literature—which today is so necessary.