Masha Palkina dreams to make of the dear friend - a centaur of Yura Gorbunov who lives in the settlement of Zagibalovo, the full-fledged person. For this purpose she suits it in the certain closed research center where are engaged in development of ways of cloning. Scientists are going to clone human part of Gorbunov that then to use bodies from a donor clone for the subsequent operation on separation of the person from a horse. However results of experiment don't suit scientists: instead of a full-fledged clone at them at first some "Tyani-Tolkay", then the same centaur, as well as Gorbunov turns out. However the clonings which are fanatically betrayed to idea, scientists are going to continue experiments to the bitter end. And Yura Gorbunov, having got acquainted with the clone, like to it fraternal affection and to rescue that from "utilization", makes with it escape from clinic. And here two brothers centaurs rush across St. Petersburg, admiring its beauty. And at this time they are searched already actively by city militia...

(The plot is thought up on the basis of the facts stated by the historian N. Eidelman giving a course of lectures to students of the High director's courses).

The metal suitcase with foreign inscriptions in a random way falls into hands of journalists. In it there are separated, numbered skeleton bones, and also an ancient varnish miniature with Pyotr's portrait 1. Whose is a skeleton, which length - more than two meters?

Search of truth brings journalists to the old woman, whose father was close familiar with the first Soviet commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress, and her story transfers us to the first postrevolutionary years...