Victor Novikoff, an editor of a literary journal in Moscow, receives a manuscript which describes an imminent nuclear terror attack, and must decide whether it is a real warning or simply fiction that can be published.

At the same time, this is an example of how policies affect the life of an ordinary citizen, but it is an example of how history is made up of ant efforts of millions of people.

Kudos to Herostratus, destroyed one of the seven wonders of the world — the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, this is not the kind of Fame, to which we should aspire”.

The second and third parts – "Portraits of his Dreams" and "Lord of the Bees" – were written in 2003 year.

The fourth principal part is "One Hundred Years from the Day of Birth" (Russian: Сто лет со дня рождения) – was written in 2006.