With this book - the ninth in a row, posthumous - the publishing house is forced to complete the long-term personal series "Oleg Pavlov's Prose." With collections or individual works, Vremya published everything that he wrote: "In Godless Lanes" (2007), "Steppe Book" (2008), "Asystole" (2010), "Gethsemane Time" (2011), "Diary of a Hospital Guard" (2012), "Treasury Tale" (2012), "Matyushin Case" (2013), "Karaganda Nines, or The Tale of the Last Days" (2013). Oleg Pavlov (1970-2018), laureate of the European Angelus Prize, Solzhenitsyn Prize and Russian Booker, translated into many languages, is "an absolutely independent and self-sufficient figure in Russian literature: a deep, distinctive, independent artist" (Vladislav Otroshenko).