About the book: 2006 / Mermaids lived calmly and cheerfully, albeit secretly, in Lake Copenhagen, near the Great Guslyar. But unscrupulous businessmen got wind of this and decided to use them for selfish commercial purposes, or simply to build a foreign exchange brothel on the shore of the lake. Eh, I wish I could repeat Susanin’s feat and lead the businessmen to hell, or even better, into the swamp.