About the book: 2018 / Yuri Buida is a prose writer, author of the novels "Thief, Spy and Murderer" (Big Book Award), "Blue Blood", " Yermo”, “The Prussian Bride” (shortlist for the Russian Booker Prize), etc. His books are published in France, Great Britain, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Norway and other countries. “The Fifth Kingdom” is exciting, soulful, an instructive and funny story in twelve chapters - according to the number of gates of the Heavenly City - in which secret agents of the Kremlin, Scottish guardsmen, the living dead, foreign spies, beautiful women, assassins, alchemists, freethinkers, kings, monks, vampires, boyars, bastards take part , balloonists, drunken witches, as well as one marble Venus and one great tree.