How to describe the history of a nation by the thoughts and deeds of its outstanding individuals? How to narrate legends and facts of the old nation, which is much alive and to this days makes, as well as in the past, huge contribution to the progress of the mankind? Is there any truth in reincarnation or this is just a fantasy? The novel will tempt you to believe in it so that you might get better understanding of the Past and its connection to the Present. And in the end it will slightly lift the curtain to reveal some aspects of the future.

How to trace the history of the people and describe it with the thoughts and actions of the distinguished members of their society? How to convey the legends and reality of one civilization that is still alive and makes, as it's done in the past, a great contribution to the progress of humanity? Is there a reincarnation, or it is a fruit of science fiction? The novel offers you to believe in it, and only then comes the understanding of the past that brought us to the present and the curtain will slightly open on some aspects of the future.

This story is based on two family relics and numerous memories of the family members as well as analysis of historical events. My grandfather was an inventor and a businessman. He lived in a small country town at the end of the XIX beginning of the XX century. He was the head of the big family, father of thirteen children. He was repressed in the first years of the new Soviet regime and banished to the camp of "Gulag" where his remarkable life was interrupted. My father did not possess the academic and business qualities of his parent. He was a soldier, creation of a New Era, new system with...