This novel can undoubtedly be called a research-and-philosophical one. What could connect a hereditary Moscow doctor—our contemporary—with the philosopher and scientist Rudolf Steiner, who died in 1925 in the Swiss imperial city of Dornach—and even more so with the Byzantine emperor Justinian, who ruled in Constantinople in the 6th century? However, it is precisely through these causal-and-temporal connections that the novel reveals the origins of anthroposophical approaches to healing the human being, which are little known in Russia.