The Key to Eternity

In Natalia Aleksandrova’s new novel, even more mysterious adventures and ominous puzzles.

For several centuries, a legend about Doctor Faust—an alchemist and a scholar who dealt with black magic and made a pact with the devil—has been passed down from generation to generation. What did Faust receive in exchange for his soul? Some believe it was knowledge; others, riches; and still others, a certain artifact that could be used to invent an elixir of eternal youth. After the doctor’s death, the valuable object passed through many hands, but then it was securely hidden from human eyes.

After many years, the artifact resurfaced, and that unleashed a chain of strange events across St. Petersburg and its surrounding areas. Some eyewitnesses claimed they saw the very Satan himself.

Nadezhda Lebedeva, a housewife from St. Petersburg, was a rational person and didn’t believe in evil spirits. But after an automobile accident, strange events began to happen to her that can’t be explained by common sense…