About the book: 2024 / An extremely unlucky teacher of a course on the history of destructive sects, Philip Zavadsky, ends up in early Peter's Moscow as a result of an explosion at a nuclear power plant. The old-new world, like the old world, is not kind to the uninvited guest - mistaking Zavadsky for a sorcerer, an angry crowd grabs him and drags him to Bolotnaya Square, where the executions of the Magi are taking place. Only a miracle saves the frightened teacher from the brutal reprisal - in the confusion he is mistaken for a foreigner from the retinue of the envoy of the Holy Roman Empire and, despite severe injuries, Zavadsky manages to escape. In the evening, on the old Pereslavl road, a barely alive eccentric is picked up by schismatics fleeing to Siberia. Soon strange rumors begin to circulate in Moscow, and then in other European capitals: the Savior has appeared in Siberia. Thousands of fugitive peasants, soldiers and entire small nations are drawn to the distant Russian region to join the bosom of a community growing at an alarming rate with the strange name “Temple of the Sun”».