Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vyacheslav Rybakov (Russian: ; born January 1954 in Leningrad) is a well known Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China. He received a 1987 Governmental Award of the RSFSR for writing the screenplay Dead Man''s Letters.Among Rybakov''s works were first published in 1979 and include the prize-winning novels: Fireplace on a Tower (Ochag na bashne, 1990), and Gravilyot Tsesarevitch (1993) which describes an alternative world of the Russian Empire. That communism is merely a religion, and our world is just an insane scientific experiment.