Vrubel's Rising Demon

While visiting the patroness, Princess Tenish eve, Vrubel painted the picture “The Flying Demon,” but in a fit of madness he wanted to destroy it. The painting was “hidden,” assigning the young artist Tiunov from the Peasant School sponsored by the princess to paint over it with a landscape. As a result of the peasant uprisings of 1904, the princess shuts down her Peasant School. In our time, Talashkino is shaken by news of the murder of a Moscow artist who arrived to restore a church built by the princess—the Church of the Holy Spirit. Lelya Schwartz and Porfiry Potapov help the local police with the investigation.