The story can be attributed to those works of the author that are devoted to
Buddhist themes,
esoterics, the image of "altered states of consciousness. In the story, the heroine named Tanya, with the help of the
shamaness Tyima, put on a commercial basis the
summoning from the lower world of the war dead soldiers, Germans, Spaniards, Italians, and Finns. The soldiers who are resurrected and return to our world retain their citizenship, allowing Russian girls to
marry them and go abroad. The service is paid for and the business is so popular that the queue for a shamaness in
Moscow is booked two years in advance. Mysteries of shamaness Tyima should take place directly on a place of a military burial, therefore Tanya by maps studies the tanks which have remained from times of war, the planes which have fallen in bogs. To these places she goes together with those wishing to marry a resurrected foreigner. Another trip to a dark forest near Moscow, where a downed German Henkel plane fell during
World War II, ends unexpectedly. In the underworld, from which the resurrected usually come, the shamaness does not find the right "client." Not wanting to refuse her friend Masha, Tanya asks the shamaness to search for him in the upper world, something they have never done before. The search ends successfully, but an unforeseen surprise occurs. Instead of the German pilot from the upper world, a Soviet Major Zvyagintsev, who was ferrying a trophy plane to an alternate airfield and was somehow shot down, which is unpleasant for him to recall even today. The artistic world that emerges has a permeability in time and space. The dead penetrate it, it is open to the historical past and at the same time connected to the near future: the resurrected warriors live for about three years, and the girls get to arrange their futures abroad. Space and time lose their stable characteristics, become heterogeneous, and today's reality is no longer perceived as something stable and balanced. Existing reference points, both temporal and spatial, are conventional in nature. == See also ==