About the book: 2022 / Doctor Jacob Van Gedele arrives in Moscow, which has just experienced the election of a new empress. Having lost his patron, a spy, poisoned, Yakov flees to Moscow from a bad reputation - in Konigsberg and Poland, rumor blamed him for the death of his patron. In Moscow, where no one knows him, Yakov dreams of getting a job as a personal surgeon for some moderately sick person. court intriguer. During his Moscow medical practice, Yakov observes the underside of ceremonial capital life and sees social lions and lionesses from an unusual perspective. Among them are a couple of imperial favorites who form a crazy love triangle with the empress, Buren and Levenvold, heroes of the novel “Gold and Steel.”»…