Tears of the Universe

What could be more respectable than a poetry evening where famous masters of words perform in front of respectable people who paid five hundred euros for a ticket? Lieutenant Colonel Goncharov arrives at this social event as a guest, but his enjoyment of poetry is hindered by the necessity to perform his official duty. One of the lovers of high literature has been murdered, and the murder weapon was the pistol that recently killed a bandit nicknamed Hamster. It seems that this far from lyrical story has its roots in the distant nineties...