Along this splendid story, based on his travel diaries, some of the places where the author has travelled extensively: Prague, Caucasus, Moscow, the city that then was called Leningrad, but also the sacred Russian literary forest: Dostoievski, Tolstói, Pushkin, Pasternak, Pilniak, Lérmontov, Tsvietáieva, Bulgákov, Nabokov, Gógol, Chéjov... This book is one of the most radical examples of the vanishing of reality into literature and also the most perfect, smart and enjoyable model of a masterly narrative construction.