Elizaveta Dvoretskaya is a popular writer known for her works in the genre of Slavic fantasy. Her new novel tells about the son of a Novgorod priest named Voyata, who was exiled to a remote cemetery because of his unruly temper. There he encounters mysterious deaths and the ancient books of the elder Panfiry, which lead him to the unraveling of the secrets of Velikoslavl—the city submerged in the depths of a lake.