The Soviet Union is collapsing. Secret archives open. A young American historian flies to Moscow. Here he meets a girl. They find unknown documents about the writing of the Gospel. She flies to America to see him. In Las Vegas, a murder happens and everything collapses. Will they ever meet again? Their meeting takes place in the Crimea. He is struck by the little-known ancient history of this region. Who are Krymchaks, Karaites and Khazars, who accepted Judaism? A KGB officer intervenes in their romance. All this are in the story "History and love." The story "Russian Salad" tell us about the creation of the famous salad "Olivier". The sketch "Sonya Fish" is a small piece of emigrant life. "Victim" is a first-person storytelling of a Chechen who committed a terrorist act at the Boston marathon. One of the most important mysteries of history for the modern world in the version of the Sephardic Jew is presented in the story "He was in Jerusalem". The autobiographical story "I was born in dancing" is a projection of the aroma of an era on a kaleidoscope of human life.