The second book of the trilogy about Igor Korsakov.
By the will of fate, the artist Igor Korsakov gets pulled into a fierce struggle of powerful forces for possession of the mysterious Tarot deck of Baphomet—a deck with the help of which it is possible to control the course of history both of Russia and of all civilization. The action of the novel takes place at the beginning of the twenty-first century; historical digressions allow us to trace the fates of the main hero’s ancestors from 1812 to the collapse of the Russian Empire.