★This book has won the "Portal" Literature Award! Russian National Bestseller Award! And Russia's most prestigious Big Book Award (Bronze)!
★The plot is based on the history of Leningrad Freemasonry in the mid-1820s.
★From the multiple winner of the Russian Big Book Award - the famous contemporary Russian novelist, biographer and poet Dmitry Bykov! His work "Biography of Pasternak" has been authorized to be published in China!

In Leningrad in 1926, people laughed hysterically, starved in despair, sold their souls for a cut of schnitzel, succumbed to armed forces—and trusted anyone who could give hope in a crumbling world. In this environment, Freemasonry begins with a simple deception and becomes a model for humanity, fighting morality with filth, lies with faith, and filth with nobility.
This is the story of two real people who have never met. One was Boris Ostromov, who tried to establish Soviet Freemasonry. It looks like he's an adventurer and provocateur, but he also knows something. The second is Adelaide Goetzke's son Daniel Zhukovsky (Galitsky in the novel), who looks like he's a saint...

【Author】Dmitry Bykov (1967)
Famous contemporary Russian novelist, biographer and poet Kim.
Professor at the Department of World Literature at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and visiting professor at Princeton University.
Winner of the Russian National Bestseller Award and the Big Book Award! Wrote biographies of Pasternak, Okujawa and Gorky, which have been translated and published in many languages.
Bykov was an energetic, creative, and extremely prolific writer with a vast body of work. In addition, he served as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine "What to Read" and became a well-known literary critic. In addition to his brilliant achievements in the field of literature, Bekov, as a co-founder of the "citizen poet" movement, has always been an active participant in literary discussions and a vigorous practitioner of new media, bravely devoted himself to political criticism and social reform, It enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. As a scholar, Bykov does not shy away from politics, he tries to find the root of Russia's modern political problems, and despite some negative views of Russian politics, Bykov has a positive view on Russia's future.

【Awards】
In 2004, the work "Orthography" won the international "Strugatsky" (named after the famous Soviet science fiction writers, the Strugatsky brothers) Science Fiction Literature Award;
In 2005, the work "Defense" was selected as the best prose work in "Literary Russia";
In 2006, the work "Evacuated People" won the International "Strugatsky" Literature Award and "Bronze Snail" Literature Award;
In 2006, his work "The Biography of Pasternak" won the Russian National Bestseller Award and the Great Book Award (Gold Award);
In 2007, the work "Life" won the international "Strugatsky" Science Fiction Literature Award, and was shortlisted for the Russian National Bestseller Award and the finalist of the Big Book Award;
In 2008, the work "Vacation" won the "Portal" Literature Award;
In 2009, the work "List" won the "Bronze Snail" Literature Award;
In 2011, the work "Ostromov" won the "Portal" Literature Award, the Russian National Bestseller Award and the Big Book Award (Bronze Award) successively;
In 2012, the poetry collection was shortlisted for the "Bunin" International Literary Award;
year 2013. The work "X" won the International "Strugatsky" Science Fiction Literature Award;
In 2018, the work "June" won the Big Book Award (Bronze Award).