From the lives of elusive

The novel genre is a modern socio -psychological, action -packed drama with elements of a sad detective and confessional mysticism. The main characters of the novel - the bosom friends of childhood Ivan Zuykov and Dmitry Garshin - loved Pushkin from young nails and wrote poetry in their youth. Garshin became a professional historian, a researcher at the Institute of History, and Zuikov, who had come down with an inventive engineering path, became the director of a furniture factory, a businessman. One of the main conflict-survey nodes of the novel is as follows: when leaving Ashgabat in the era of interethnic conflicts, Zuykov took out from there to his home during the restructuring of the collection of rare old icons from the collection of the White Officer, who was after the Civil War in the southeast of the empire. In the village near Moscow, Zuykov organized a hundred and himself became a respected Cossack colonel in the district, continuing the genealogy of his ancestors. He awarded his partners in business, director of the bank Boris and athlete Georges, he awarded the Cossack ranks: he appointed the first a hundred, the second - Horunimi. After the privatization of the Zuikov factory, it also becomes a large benefactor, by this time he is married for the third time. He marrieds and dreams of her wife Natasha, about whom he, Bard and Menstrel, wrote, perhaps, the main song in his life, when he broke into "The very first escape to himself", sensing his heart to the restructuring of life, life -giving juices of creativity and love . Zuykov, having received reliable confirmations from Garshin about the unscrupulousness of his "Cossacks", soon publicly drives the cornet and quarrels with the banker Boris, a high -ranking patron of the vile racketeer Georges. “Bended wife ", from whom the director is waiting for the long -awaited daughter of Natasha, brazenly cheating on Zuykov, swiftly stoles priceless icons from the cache, conveys to the banker and hides. Zuikov goes into a binge "in black" - he has a third vast heart attack, he is death. The cheater-wife on the side of the enemies of Zuykov from his former friends, Georges is trying to find a cache with the icons donated by Zuykov Churches, while trying to the spirit of Macarius, not saying anything about the secret of the benefactor, dies from the hands of the villains. Garshin had his own escape to himself - to Gurzuf, where in his youth he worked as a counselor in Artek, to his lover Laura. With the "Pushkinist" Lao, they talk a lot about Pushkin, who was in Gurzuf at General Raevsky for three weeks, about the theme of “Poet and King ", trembling Natalia Nikolaevna with the king. The bisexual Laura, whom the successful husband and businessman-Bandit in one bottle “placed "under the" useful "men and women for the sake of a successful gang business, does not understand what she risks. And Garshin, when escaping to himself, does not understand what a whirlwind of tragic circumstances is possible with him and his lover. After a long illness, after a long illness, before the defense of the dissertation, with the series of mysterious deaths of his relatives and friends, one is surrounded by enemies and enemies, who now believe that he is the only, after the dead Zuykov and priest Macarius, where precious icons are hidden. Georges and bandits torture Garshin to find out about the fate of precious icons, but he only laughs bitterly at the self -loving bandits and calmly, with a pure conscience of a lifelong who did not change his friend, dies. The villains strangled the hero-martyr and poke their knives into the already dead body when he calmly looks at them proudly and down. As if recalling the good verses of a friend who did not change on the edge of the abyss: The instant of life eliminating - everyone suddenly will stand before his eyes" and Life as a moment until disappearance. It is not scary to disappear at one last moment if the evil is shaken calmly, without any pathetic, a good conscientious soul, faithful to the very end of friendship, human love. Roman is both a sad detective and phantasmagoria of despair of the elusive, disappearing lives of the heroes of the story without the right to prevent this disappearance in the last troubled times