In the dictionary of V.I. Dahl, the word fornication has a double meaning: firstly, it is evasion of a direct path, and secondly, something related to illegal cohabitation, adultery. The book gives a broad retrospective of fornication in our Fatherland: from the time of Rurik to our years. These are testimonies of contemporaries, searches of historians, responses of writers, excerpts from works of art. Are fornication indestructible in Russia?..