The Great Outcast

Sergey Alekseev’s new novel will immerse the reader in the times of Alexander the Great, when the world was divided into civilization and barbarism, enlightenment and savagery. But what is true culture—fine arts and philosophy, or native knowledge, customs, and traditions? And why did the audacious attempt by a great commander to unite these two worlds—starting an Eastern campaign to defeat the barbarism of Persia, the Great Skuфи, India, and to establish not only his power in the world, but also the enlightenment of Greece—end with his return in a honey barrel, which was then used for embalming?

Why did his teacher, the great philosopher Aristotle, force his student to burn the sacred Avesta scroll captured in Persepolis—the sacred capital of Persia—and condemn also the Indian Vedas and other ancient knowledge to the flames? And in whose hands was the conqueror of the world—and the thinker who liberated mankind’s spiritual space to affirm his philosophy—nothing more than a toy?

The great master of intrigue and words will open many sacred secrets in the novel.