Kapchagaj

May 1953 goda. Gruppa zaklyuchennykh lagerya pod Alma-Atoy poluchaet neozhidannuyu svobodu blagodarya Kapchagayu - sredneaziatskoy peschanoy bure. Presleduemyy otryadom chechenskikh boevikov k nim prisoedinyaetsya starets Fedor Kuz'mich - ob"yavlennyy ranee umershim Iosif Stalin... Chitatel' uznaet o strannoy roli, otvedennoy imperatoru Aleksandru Blagoslovennomu v stanovlenii sovetskoy vlasti, druzhbe Stalina i Tamerlana i prochikh dikovinnykh sobytiyakh istorii.