The Mystery of the Old Newspaper

In different countries and in different eras, as if time and space had no power over him, a mysterious white-haired old man appeared, offering anyone willing to play a game of dice with him. The mystery of his identity was shrouded in darkness: some saw him as a scholar-alchemist, others considered him a sorcerer and accused him of communicating with the devil. Be that as it may, anyone who accepted his offer became a witness to a series of strange, inexplicable events... In modern Petersburg, amateur detective Nadezhda Lebedeva comes across a stack of old Soviet newspapers, and strangely enough, the incidents described in their pages begin to repeat themselves in the present. Being a reasonable person and not believing in mystical coincidences, Nadezhda wishes to understand what is happening. And her search for the truth leads her to the fateful dice…