A chain of terrible events unfolds in Oranienbaum and Kazan in the summer of 1891. A well-known manufacturer receives in a package his own bloodied head, sculpted out of wax. And a photographer’s camera suddenly fires, killing a visitor in the studio.
The tragic fate of the Most Serene Prince Alexander Menshikov intertwines the past and the present.
Klim Ardashev must unravel the secrets of the eighteenth century and find the culprit.