About the book: 2012 / General Ivanikhin, hero of the Great Patriotic War, returned home with rich trophies. The 19th century paintings he brought from Germany still hang in his relatives’ homes. But two of them disappear from the alarmed apartment. Journalist Yulia Smirnova finds out that the German Walter Künzel was interested in the paintings, and US citizen Alex Zimmerman was having an affair with two great-granddaughters of the general. Walter is looking for paintings of horses and is ready to pay any money for them, but a couple of days later he is discovered with traces of failed poisoning - as the surviving German himself assures, this is the work of relatives of the late Ivanikhin. He turns to the Crime Chronicle star Julia for help. But she is also interested in another “artistic” mystery. All over the city, buyers of paintings by the little-known painter Morozov for some reason spoil their purchases and wash off the paint from the canvases... in search of the legacy of Leonardo da Vinci…