The Blade of the Razor

Ivan Antonovich Efremov (1908-1972) is a famous Soviet writer, paleontologist, and founder of modern Russian science fiction.
“The Blade of the Razor” is the central work of the writer, in which he invested the philosophical and aesthetic ideas he explored throughout his life. The action of the novel “The Blade of the Razor” covers a wide variety of places on our planet: Russia, Italy, India, Africa. The main character, a young Soviet scientist Ivan Girin, strives to unravel the mystery of an ancient crown that once belonged to Alexander the Great and desperately seeks the key to creating the “man of the future”