About the book: year / “This letter was written to me by my unfortunate friend, Alexander Athanatos, a few days after his miraculous rescue, in response to my urgent requests - describe those amazing scenes of which he was the only living witness. The letter was intercepted by agents of the Provisional Government and destroyed as a harmful and immoral work. Only after the tragic death of my friend, when the things he left behind were delivered to me, did I find a draft of this story among his papers, and later learned about the fate of the letter itself…»