A sensation—Rembrandt’s famous “The Night Watch” at the Hermitage! But on the very first day of the exhibition, when the painting—one that had never left Amsterdam before—was attacked by some woman with a knife. The painting was sent for restoration to Dmitry Starygin, who discovered that the “Night Watch” brought to Petersburg was not an original at all, but a very well-made copy! And soon the woman who tried to harm the masterpiece committed suicide by jumping out of a window. Before her death, she managed to draw a strange sign on the asphalt in blood—an inverted six-pointed star inscribed in a circle. Starygin understood: it’s the key, and it will lead him to the original legendary painting of the great Dutchman!
The book was also released under the title “The Secret of ‘The Night Watch.’”