t is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2009. The novel recounts the journey of the martial arts master Count T. (a reference to Leo Tolstoy), who escapes from his home persecuted by the tsarist police and makes his way to the Optina Monastery, which in the context of this novel takes on the features not of the famous monastery of Orthodoxy, but of some Shambhala, or some obscure place of spiritual enlightenment that exists in the real world. The leitmotif of this novel-metaphor is the relationship between author and hero, creator and creature, predestination and free will. Source: Wikipedia (en)