“…He saw his long, long life before him as one brief week: a hardworking Monday, a springy Tuesday, a courageous Wednesday, a strong Thursday, a mature Friday, a stormy Saturday, and a quiet, bright Sunday…”
On him is all Moscow’s guard, tasked with keeping city order and investigating crimes. He solves crime after crime, and before the reader’s eyes, in the meantime, not only a series of incredible adventures of “Old-Moscow Sherlock Holmes” passes by, but also the entire seventeenth century—with its wars, daring bandits, and famous uprisings (the novel “The Week of the Three-Eyed”).