The novel is a multi-layered excursion through different layers of time, tracing the creation, loss, and new rediscovery of the oldest Slavic texts—chronicles—that may well have been “Veles’s Book” or its equivalent. The first part, “The Wooden Book,” tells of the discovery of planks with unknown writing on the estate of the princes Donets-Zakhartsevsky near Kharkiv during the Civil War. The ancient Slavic “unics” are studied by the artist Izenbek and the writer Mirolyubov. The second part, “The Great Tri-glav,” introduces the reader to events and figures of Kievan Rus in the 10th century—the sorcerer Velimir, the old warrior Mechislav, and his student Svetozar. It describes the creation of the wooden planks. The main character of the third part, “Thread of Times,” is a former intelligence services officer, Major Chumakov, who, after a serious wound, begins to have strange visions. “Passing” the ancient through himself, he becomes a “priest” of the present. At a turning point of eras, it’s always important to touch the experience of those who have already gone through similar trials.