Mercury and gold

The doctor Yakov Van Gedel arrives in Moscow, who has just survived the election of the new empress. Having lost his patron, a spy poisoned by poison, Jacob runs to Moscow from a bad reputation - in Koenigsberg and Poland, rumor accused him of the death of the cartridge.
In Moscow, where no one knows him, Jacob dreams of getting a personal surgeon to some kind of painful court intrigue. During his Moscow medical practice, Jacob observes the wrong side of the ceremonial metropolitan life and, in an unusual perspective, sees secular lions and lionesses. Among them are a pair of imperial favorites that make up a crazy love triangle with the Empress, Buren and Levenwell, the heroes of the novel “Gold and Steel”