About the book: 2019 / Vyacheslav Stavetsky - novelist, archaeologist, mountaineer. Born in 1986 in Rostov-on-Don, finalist of the Debut Prize (2015) and the Prize named after. V. P. Astafiev (2018), published in the magazine “Znamya”. Novel “The Life of A.G.” nominated for major literary awards. Spanish General Augusto Avellaneda is the most unfortunate of dictators. His World War II allies were damn lucky: one shot himself in the forehead, another was hanged in Piazzale Loreto. A tragic misfire fails Avellaneda, and the Republican rebels pass on a monstrous sentence to him - they put the dictator in a cage and drive him around the country, presenting him to crowds of angry slaves. Universal justice triumphs, the blood of countless victims is paid for by the shame of the killer, but gradually an unprecedented anthropological experiment develops into a battle between the former leader and his people…