About the book: 1987 / - They brought it, master! Two servants in greasy cocked hats, with halberds in their hands, earnestly stretched out on the sides of the low door; two others, dressed in uniforms, pushed in a red-haired man with insanely fixed blue eyes. The master, dressed in a purple robe, stood up from his chair, straightened his tied Prussian braid and raised his gilded staff. The trial has begun.