RU. Novel,  1997,

Epic mythological fantasy; Ancient India.

Our world stands on the verge of Kali-Youga, the Era of Darkness. The lightnings of the heavenly weapons sparkle over the Fields of Kuru, which became the scene of the greatest of battles. Great heroes and ordinary warriors perish one after another and even Gods themselves are now unable to stop this slaughter. The world approaches its end, daemons penetrate to the gardens of Paradise, the souls of the dead refuse to go to the Blissful halls and to the Hell, and a shadow of the future rises over the ashes of past: it is the Lord Krishna, the Black Trouble-Maker with his favourite flute in hand. Who is he in fact, a rebellious avatar of divine entity, what does he want? But the Era of Darkness wasn't finished after the world's end, it just began, as well as the stories of the terrible god Indra the Thunderer the bull among the followers of Rama-with-an-Axe, and three of his disciples who perished at the Fields of Kuru. After you have read the book it is impossible to forget the images of the giant Gangea the Terrible, or the priest-homunculus Brahman-of-the-Casket, both passionate and passionless, or the merry Karna-Long Ears who gave his invulnerability and the divine rank for the possibility to live and to die by his own choice. In this book each personage has the personality of his own easily discernible from the others.

"The Black Trouble-Maker" is a grandiose epic in three volumes based on the "Mahabharata", one of the greatest books of Mankind, but it is not a retelling but a specific, individual approach to the destinies of the Three worlds which became our reality, to the origins of the Universe and the place of the Man in it. This is the book which is worth reading many times.

Published 16 times from 1998 to 2019 (Russia).