About the book: 2020 / The story does not end. Sometimes events and objects seem to be taken out of a linear flow and seem like Mitchell’s “endless nesting doll of painted moments.” Yuri Kostin’s novels “German”, “Russian”, “Frenchman” are the case when the past continues to remind itself, controlling the choice and fate of its heroes in the real present. An apple orchard in the village of Khizna in the fall of 1941, the Soviet “Pirozhkovaya” at Rozhdestvenka and Oktoberfest in Munich, a Caribbean airfield, a shamanic river and an alpine lake, Santa Monica Boulevard, Kutuzov’s headquarters in Tarutino and the NASA observatory on top of Mauna Kea - that’s just some “puzzles” from the chronicles of Anton Ushakov. You have in your hands the second edition of the novel “Russian”. This is a book about those “Russian boys” about whom Dostoevsky said that they were ready to correct the map of the starry sky and save the whole world. The mysterious artifact, which the heroes of the novel are chasing from generation to generation, symbolizes this passion (to be the messiah) and reveals the secret of the Tunguska meteorite. But in this case, it is worth saving yourself first of all - from temptations, obvious and invisible. It is no coincidence that Anton Ushakov makes a key decision in modern Las Vegas…