The Low Tundra (Russian: «Нижняя тундра») is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1999.
[1][2][3][4] Pelevin's satirical-philosophical psychedelic fantasy story shows the reality of 1990s Russia through the aesthetics of medieval Chinese culture.
[5] The narration then takes an unexpected turn, in which the author tries to show the human consciousness's ability to cling to the reality in which it believes, even though a large number of facts point to the fallacy of those judgments.
When asked how he got there, it turns out that he is an ordinary Muscovite who yesterday drank vodka at the restaurant "Northern Lights" and was poisoned with clafelin for the purpose of robbery.
For a long time the patient had been undergoing treatment in the hospital and he continued to consider himself an emperor and hatched a plan to escape.
[5][7] At the end of the story, the reader must decide for himself who the narrator was, the emperor or a clafellin-poisoned and temporarily insane resident of Moscow in the early 1990s.