About the book: 2011 / The hero of the novel, young entrepreneur Pyotr Alekseevich Sobakin, finds the recipe for a mysterious elixir written down by his great-grandfather, a friend of Mendeleev himself. To unravel the mystery of the drug, he goes in search of encrypted ingredients in the company of a Moscow PR man, a reliable St. Petersburg museum worker and a very suspicious French cousin. Fun adventures await them in both capitals, provinces and villages, meetings with vodka kings, original Russian Zionists, contemporary artists, great tasters, as well as armed and very dangerous fighters for the purity of Russian spelling...