Burdened with Evil, or Forty Years Later

This book is the last significant work written by the Strugatsky brothers Arkady Natanovich and Boris Natanovich together. Some result of many years of joint work. In this book, several mutually complementary plots are intertwined at once - from the buying of souls by a certain black Demiurge, whose interests are represented by a certain Agasfer Lukich, in exchange for the fulfillment of all kinds of human desires. And before traveling around the world and at the time of the Apostle John, w...