The Crimean Mage's Doll

9 hrs. 16 min.

Language Russian

Author Maria Spasskaya

Narrator Tatyana Nenarokomova

Description

Once the poet Maximilian Voloshin found a whimsical grape root on the seashore, carved a devil out of it, and gave it to Lila Dmitrieva, who loved him. Then the inventor Max turned the little-known Lila into the mysterious poetess Cherubina de Gabriac. And Lila, who placed the wooden imp in a place of honor in her St. Petersburg apartment, believed: it had given her the talent to write poems…

Many years passed, generations of tenants changed, but the imp stayed in its place. Until a journalist, Zhenya Kolesnikova, appeared in the city. She came for the funeral of her father, whom she had never seen, and only at first didn’t realize she’d ended up at the center of a strange and frightening mystification. As it soon turned out, her father is actually alive, and the whole story about his funeral was invented by him as he set up a dangerous intrigue. Against her will, Zhenya gets pulled into it too…