A Hundred Years of the Way

One hundred years ago, strange and threatening events took place—events you can’t forget, events you can’t leave in the past, because without the past there is no present…
…and it so happened that the expert in the State Duma, Dmitry Shakhovsky—Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at Moscow University—was drawn into the investigation. In the past he orients himself far better than in the present.
When the director of a museum is murdered at an estate on Vozdvizhenka, and at the body they find an antique Meissen porcelain cup and several letters from the early twentieth century, Shakhovsky becomes involved in the case. To understand what happened at the crime scene, Shakhovsky has to reconstruct events from nearly a century ago—the story of the first Duma, the defeat of a terrorist cell, the arrest of the plotters. And to learn and understand something else… about himself. Perhaps he wouldn’t have recognized or understood it if not for Varvara Zvon-kova, who sparked his imagination. He will untangle the intricate threads of fate, the strange and mysterious coincidences. Though maybe these aren’t coincidences at all? How much has changed—just for the hundred years of the road…