About the book: 2020 / What do Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, a little French immigrant, the current President of Russia, a famous cartoonist and the Devil himself have in common? The answer is unexpected: Notre Dame Cathedral. For some it is a symbol of faith, for others it is a view from a tourist postcard – Notre Dame is different for everyone. That is why, when a fire broke out there in April 2019, millions of people experienced it as a personal tragedy and watched the death of the cathedral in real time. In Ivan Chekalov's debut novel, Notre Dame Cathedral serves as the point of intersection of a variety of destinies. It combines high tragedy and black humor, grotesque and irony. The reader is presented with an architectural novel: in it, each of the characters is part of the cathedral. Some got the spire, some the transept, and some were destined to ascend the altar.