About the book: 1992 / Novel from the history of the Petrine era. At the center of the story is an associate of Peter I, diplomat P. A. Tolstoy, whose life was an example of selfless service to Russia.P. A. Tolstoy remained in history as a figure who acted on the verge of risk and wise prudence, as one of the brilliant minds of his time. The collisions of his life are complex and contradictory: an ambassador to the Sultan's court in Constantinople, a prisoner of the famous horrors of the Seven Tower Castle, the head of the Secret Chancellery, which trembled the most courageous, and the fall into the abyss of the black prison of the Solovetsky Monastery. The novel is written in a bright, figurative language, with excellent knowledge of historical , realities.