About the book: 2010 / “The cop had a dog”... This is the name of the story by Afanasy Mamedov, which was awarded the famous prize named after. Ivan Petrovich Belkin 2011. It is about the Baku events of 1990. Mentions of pogroms are sporadic, but the whole story is built on them. As noted in Russian newspapers, this is a work about the feeling of historical guilt, a passing era and time passing through the fingers. In those very days when the Azerbaijanis were killing Armenians in the city, police major Akhmedov, nicknamed Gul-Bala, the main character of the story, quietly left Baku for his dacha. Returning to the city, the major, however, still moved with his wife into the apartment abandoned by the Armenian family. And, it would seem, he could live in peace, but at night the “Armenian Baskervilles” appeared under his windows, yearning for his former master Karo. Gul-Bala first decided to shoot the dog, and then... brought it into his house. To her house…