These crimes took place in the city of Bronnitsy with a difference of one and a half hundred years... In the old days, a sharp saber took the lives of beautiful lovers - Melania and Makara, the lady and her serf actor... The double murder is being investigated by the world mediator Alexander Pushkin, the poet's son, and his friend, the landowner Claudius Mamontov. Nowadays, Savva Psaltyrnikov, a major official who managed to make a huge fortune, build an estate, purchase real estate abroad and open accounts, has died of poison. And not having time to transfer all this to his son... At the request of the chief of police, Ekaterina Petrovskaya, a criminal observer of the press center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, and Klavdiy Mamontov, a descendant of the same landowner and full namesake, are conducting an unspoken investigation. What drove the criminals - self-interest, revenge, passion? And is there a connection between modern poisoning and murder a century and a half ago?..