The Cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk fires the imagination. Large, slightly pink pearls, like dew, frame a gold plate. Emeralds greener than grass, rubies redder than blood, sapphires bluer than the sky. But anyone who touches the cross with evil intentions will suffer the fate of Judas. Even Ivan the Terrible feared this curse. Yet some Moscow student boys, eager for Dan Brown’s glory, decided to track down the vanished relic. And they paid for it with their lives. Writer Lika Vronskaya and her friend, investigator Vladimir Sedov, find it no easy task to identify the killer. Crime, the Church, the FSB—it seems everyone has their own interest in this case...