About the book: 2023 / "Fateful Test" is the third final mythological story of the mystical triptych "Christmas Stories of Zalesye". In the last days of Christmastide, a strange old man appears at night in the Zalesskaya church, with an equally strange task for the local deacon Ignat, to temporarily serve as the guard of the mythological Kalinov Bridge. Read about what came out of this and what amazing events it led to in another fascinating story by the modern Russian author Viktor Malikov.