About the book: 2015 / "Metro 2033" by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a cult science fiction novel, the most discussed Russian book in recent years. Circulation - half a million, translations into dozens of languages, plus a grandiose computer game! This post-apocalyptic story inspired a galaxy of modern writers, and now they are together creating the “Metro Universe 2033” - a series of books based on the famous novel. The heroes of these new stories will finally go beyond the Moscow metro. Their adventures on the surface of the Earth, almost destroyed by nuclear war, exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! When the fire of the Last War scorched the earth, much died: the old world and the old values, the old gods and the old people. And the few survivors, as often happens, happily abandoned the old in the name of the new. But the history of mankind is a snake biting its own tail. Too often the new is the well-forgotten old, and no less often is the old really worth forgetting. And now, on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov, the traditions of Ancient Sparta are being revived, and in the city that almost became the capital of the Russian Empire instead of St. Petersburg, the dawn of a new humanity is dawning. But is it new??…