About the book: 2002 / Kostin’s native The house on the embankment was the same walled up with carrion. Someone jumped out of the window, someone rented out apartments and disappeared, former leaders are not residents, foreigners and nouveau riche are one-dimensional, like robots. Two good types lived nearby, but the top one, Arkasha’s childhood friend Blevitsky, got drunk and dreamed of a woman with money, and the new neighbor Leonid Ivanovich Ivanov was involved in computer support and flew to his schoolboy son at Eton on weekends.