A novel about the little-known events of the late Hellenistic era, which bizarrely united the fates of representatives of civilizations of the West and the East. In my work on it, my friend and co-author Nikolai Burlankov and I started from the Chinese chronicles of the Han Dynasty, having consistently gone from studying political conflicts of the 1st century. BC e. To rethinking the cultural and religious traditions of Buddhism and Christianity.