About the book: 2011 / “Psoglavtsy” is a brilliant debut novel by Alexey Mavrin, the first novel in Russia about “dangerologists,” people hunting for deadly artifacts of world culture. A village lost in the forest, surrounded by peat quarries. Nearby are the ruins of the criminal zone. Three young restorers come to this wilderness to remove a dying fresco from the wall of an abandoned church. Easy work for only five days... But on the fresco there is the Psoglavets, a heretical image of St. Christopher with the head of a dog, and the village, it turns out, in the old days was a schismatic monastery. And in the darkness of the peat fires, another story begins to emerge more and more clearly - mysterious and frightening. This village hides many mysteries. At night in the corridor - the clatter of dog claws, the smell of a dog... you open the door - no one. Run - but how many managed to get away from here... And in the dilapidated house next door - a timid girl “with an Egyptian eye shape... and such a curve of lips, cracked from the heat, as if these lips knew everything about life»…