About the book: 2012 / Novel-instructions for using Russia. Alexander Meshcheryakov is a Japanese scholar and writer, author and translator of more than 30 books. His new novel tells about people who were eager to live in the country of the hammer and sickle, but ended up in tricolor Russia. Some of them live in a monastery, others in a luxurious mansion. Together they compose a national idea. These eccentric people easily move in space and time, who enthusiastically play with their destinies. “Laughter through tears” - this is the genre of this sparkling text, doomed to be dispersed into quotes.