About the book: 2016 / "The Magician" is a novel by the Russian historian and fiction writer Pyotr Nikolaevich Polevoy (1839–1902). The events of the novel revolve around the figure of the royal doctor, who has unlimited access to the powerful of the world. However, this does not bring joy to the worthy Aesculapius, since he is forced every now and then to break away from personal studies in order to help the sovereign and his wife…