Pauche knyazhestvo

V polurazrushennyy knyazheskiy dom svozyat sirot so vsey Imperii. No dom etot strannyy i pugayuschiy. No Marishka budto edinstvennaya bespokoitsya ob etom. Eyo golos tonet v golosah drugih, vo vnezapnom skripe polovits i dvizhenii ozhivshih veschey. Drugie siroty ne hotyat slushat, ved kazhdyy znaet: Marishka — lgunya. Zhizn Marishki stanovitsya slozhnee, i v etom dome negde skrytsya ot zlyh yazykov i travli, sdavivshey sheyu. «Ne boysya teh, kto ushel, milaya. Boysya teh, kto ostalsya». Mrachnoe folkfentezi, sobytiya kotorogo razvorachivayutsya v dekoratsiyah alternativnoy Rossiyskoy imperii. V istorii gospodstvuyut tsarpank i triller, no mezhdu nimi yarkoy iskorkoy vpletena romantika. Mir deteysirotok menyaetsya v odnochase, i pereezd v ustrashayuschuyu usadbu, prozvannuyu Marishkoy «Pauchim knyazhestvom», okazyvaetsya ne glavnoy problemoy. Samoe strashnoe prestuplenie v Imperii — otkaz ot very v panteon, «neverie». Gde pravda, a gde — lozh?