Дорогобуж

"Dorogobuzh" brings to mind the dystopias of Vladimir Sorokin and simultaneously the historical fantasy of Alexei Ivanov. "The present in the future, the future in the past, the past in the present. A dream within a dream, realism in dystopia, the fantastic in the historical. A true labyrinth!"
The small Smolensk town of Dorogobuzh unexpectedly becomes a point where epochs converge: a cruel Smolensk prince with a squadron of flying hussars wages war on Muscovy; mermaids eagerly converse with humans and move from the past to the future; a treasure of ancient coins is hidden in a house amid revolutionary turmoil...