Everything happened on one unhappy day, when betrayal and envy take away the future from Augustus Agda, Count de Lamar. Povesa and Breter, the soul of society, the favorite of women and the master of dark magic, overnight he loses everything: wealth and title, his own name, well-deserved fame and even old love. However, people like the Count are dangerous to corner. The consequences can be devastating. Succumbing to anger, Augustus conducts a dark ritual of incredible power, and the mysterious dark sorceress Thea d'Agaris, who died a hundred years ago, returns to the world of the living. But is this the woman August was thinking about? Her name is Tanya. She is from St. Petersburg. But at the same time he claims that Russia is not an empire, but a republic. And in the yard, by the way, the 18th century. This is how the adventures of two adventurers - aristocrats and dark magicians - begin in Northern Italy and Austria. Strange events, court intrigues, unexpected discoveries and unknown dangers.