This book is not ordinary. It consists of my novel "You Can't Stay Away" and a "virtual" part, which is posted on the Internet in the form of a blog written by one of the characters in the novel. A blog is a keyhole into the past, through which you can peep into well-hidden secrets. He helps private detective Alexei Kisanov restore the events of distant days, but not only: he reveals the character of both the blogger himself and several of his former classmates. The idea of writing a novel that includes a virtual part was prompted by my love for playing with multiple realities, which I discovered while working on my dissertation on Eugene Onegin (and other works by Pushkin). And I couldn't resist the opportunity to play it! The world of fiction, which is fiction, echoes the world of the virtual in its fantasy essence, in the possibilities of mystification, and the temptation to collide these two worlds in one work was very great. As a result, the virtual becomes part of the novel, where the blog is written by the character of the novel, and the comments are left by the most real visitors, who thereby unwittingly become part of the novel! At the same time, this game allowed me to separate two polar worlds in spirit and outlook, giving each its own form and its own space. For the "role" of a character keeping a virtual diary, I invited Oleg Khrustalev, a journalist from Nizhny Novgorod. He bravely took on the challenge of detailing the blogger's unsightly character and telling the unsightly story from his point of view. Oleg played this role with great skill, for which I bring him my gratitude! The address of the blog is indicated in the course of the development of the plot. For those who do not have access to the Internet, a printout from the blog (without visitor comments) is given in the Appendix to the novel. (Chur, do not peep ahead of time!) As in any blog "hanging" on the net, any visitor can leave their comments there.

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