About the book: 2016 / “Three young Muscovites come to a remote village in the Volga region for a “hack job”: they need to remove a dying fresco from the wall of an abandoned church. On the fresco there is a heretical image of St. Christopher with the head of a dog. It turns out that in the old days the village was a schismatic monastery, and the “hack” is the experience of mysterious dangerologists, “sappers” of world culture. And in the darkness of peat fires, the lost historical memory gives birth to the terrible Dog-Head - either the demon of the schismatics, or the god of the camp guard. If you like, this is a genre novel, a horror story about werewolves. If you like, new village prose. If you like, a stylization for web surfing on the topic of the Russian schism. But in general, “Dogheads” is a story about the invisible borders of culture and the guardians of these borders. Any society has a certain circle of beliefs, and society does not allow a person to leave this circle, and if a person dares to go beyond the sacred limit, then monsters rush after him.” Alexey Ivanov