About the book: year / 80s of the 19th century. Strange events take place in the Kolomna estate of the Olitsky princes. The old prince dies under mysterious circumstances, his sons receive threatening letters, and the ghost of the White Lady wanders around the house at night. The princess turns to her old friend Doctor Zhigamont for help. Events are developing rapidly: members of the Olitsky family die one after another. Almost every inhabitant of the house hides a skeleton in the closet and could turn out to be a murderer. Investigators Nemirovsky and Wigel come to the doctor’s aid. Meanwhile, Kolomna detective Ovcharov, having received an order from one of the inhabitants of the estate, goes to Moscow to find out about the fate of those involved in a terrible crime that took place 20 years ago. Vasily Romanenko helps him in this, for whom that case was the first in detective practice. How are current crimes related to old ones? What does the “nest of nobility” hide, which turned out to be ruined by the vices of its inhabitants? Detectives will have to figure this out..