Victor Pelevin. The Caretaker. Two books in one volume.

They say the ghost of Emperor Paul I, assassinated by conspirators, still haunts the Mikhailovsky Castle. But what if it wasn't the emperor who was killed, but his double, while Paul the Alchemist himself departed St. Petersburg for a new world he created with the help of Franz Anton Mesmer and Benjamin Franklin, becoming the first Guardian of this new world, which they named the Idyllium? For three centuries, the Idyllium has lurked in the shadow of the Old Earth, interacting with it according to its own unique laws. But at what point does an idea completely separate itself from its creator? To what extent can a product of the imagination acquire a life of its own? And can an ordinary person become a god if enough people believe in it?
For the first time under one cover – “The Order of the Yellow Flag” and “The Iron Abyss”, both parts of the mystical search of Alexis de Kige, the new Overseer of Idyllium.