About the book: 2005 / New novel by St. Petersburg prose writer Vladimir Kornev, familiar to the reader from the mystical thriller "Modern". The action takes place on the eve of the First World War. The main characters - a famous ballerina and an aspiring artist - go through a series of terrible, fatal trials in their confrontation with the forces of world evil. In the whirlpool of passions and semi-fantastic events on the eve of the First World War and the bloody Russian unrest, the destinies of a prima ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet and an aspiring artist are intertwined. The story of the legendary warlock Doctor Faustus, who sold his soul to the devil, again finds flesh and blood in the temptation of pure arts: painting, ballet and poetry, bringing a person to the extreme point of creative development and... killing. Somewhere in the space between the Gothic stained glass windows of Weimar libraries and theatrical stages Paris and the old churches of St. Petersburg lie the clues to the mystery of the Sacred Spear of Demons and the mystery of the transformation of the inspired femininity of a white swan into the cold mystery of a black one... “The Danish King” is a brilliant mystical novel by the St. Petersburg writer Vladimir Kornev, captivating the reader from the first pages and lifting the curtain on the stage where true love resists the temptations of dark forces and rises above demonic morality.