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Maxim Kantor offers an unexpected genre — ironic philosophical detective. The author of the fundamental "drawing Tutorial", political essay "the Slow jaws of democracy," the tragic novel "the other side" proves that a serious thought about the fate of Russia can be summarized in the form of a criminal history inherent in the genre characters: the wise detective and his friend, the chronicler of events. This strange detective we didn't know is a Professor of history Sergey Ilyich Tatarnikov, which unravels any business, from a knowledge of the total picture of the world — and along the way tells us a philosophical parable. Case of missing realtor, about the missing Colonel of the KGB, the mysterious Kingdom of Udmurtia and the theft in the Express train Moscow—St.-Petersburg for a detective-historian — is an occasion to understand the nature of our society. As always Maxim Kantor, the book presents a panorama of today's Russia, from the homeless to the President.