Priest Peter Ivanov

The heroine of the epic must present the reader with a healthy lifestyle. However, this remains one of the weakest points throughout all the volumes of Puzakov's opus that have appeared so far. Constantly jumping exalted, spinning around her axis, patting trees and wriggling on the grass, Anastasia "continues to do her job" for the rest of the time (1, p. 41). The work is to reflect on the fate of mankind and to correct the course of world events. Anastasia has no other activities that fans of forest health could imitate.

How does Anastasia affect the world? The "spiritual tool" of the hermit is a certain invisible ray with the help of which she can see what is happening in any part of the earth and even the universe. The fourth volume of Puzakov's opus tells how Anastasia took him to another planet, showing the "center of capture". The author tries to convince his readers that on many planets there are civilizations that are technically developed, but spiritually not self-sufficient. They travel around the universe on flying saucers. They are generated by "evil entities", competitors of God.

Evil entities want to destroy the earth, but "Anastasia" in the course of the plot materializes in the enemy's headquarters (moving her body to another planet), paralyzes his will and destroys the tools prepared for the enslavement of humanity. Therefore, in the end, Puzakov proclaims her a "messiah" (3, p. 273).

Believe me, the Antichrist is not far away. At the conference of the "Anastasians" in Gelendzhik, it was not only proposed to achieve a legislative decision of the State Duma on the protection of "Anastasia" as a national treasure, but also the idea was put forward to appeal to the UN - "today the UN is like a world government. I would like to fantasize: what if, over time, Anastasia can become its leader, the "queen of the world"."

Anastasia's mission is to explain to people the "perniciousness of the technocratic path of development" and to show the way to the "origins" (1, p. 48). She knows all the languages of the world, she can translate the Vedas completely, but she does not want to waste time on this (3, p. 278) (and there is really no point: everything has already been translated).

The plot of the work under consideration is that Anastasia accidentally found herself in the place where the entrepreneur Puzakov seduced village girls with the luxury of a provincial businessman. One of them exclaimed in admiration that she loved him. Anastasia (who does not pronounce a single word in vain – the magical meaning of the word is constantly emphasized here) repeats the confession aloud and thereby takes love upon herself. And here is the insignificant Puzakov (his stupidity and wretchedness are deliberately emphasized throughout the text in order to serve as a favorably shading tone for Anastasia's banal "revelations"; in one of the passages it is said as follows: "I am happy that I have not taken anyone from your life who can bring joy to another woman" — 1, p. 333), a married man, which, however, does not bother him at all, enters into a relationship with a forest dweller. As it turns out, all this is for the sake of the birth of a son, which he has long dreamed of. Apparently, Puzakov has prepared a special role for the child in the "novel". This can be judged by the fact that in the course of the narrative it comes to outright blasphemy. Anastasia's grandfather and great-grandfather come to congratulate their pregnant granddaughter. To her question about how they found out, there is a blasphemous answer: "So it's a star.." (1, p. 228). The subtext is a comparison of the fornicated Anastasia with the Most Holy Theotokos through an allusion to the Star of Bethlehem. Further in the text we find the following revelation of a forest dweller: "Only a mother is capable of giving birth to Christ who believes that Christ will be born to her, and if the attitude of the parents to the child is as to Christ or Muhammad, the child will follow the thought" (2, p. 140). Let us leave aside the obvious anti-Christian pathos. Note that it contains a hint at the exceptional mission of the child born by Anastasia from Puzakov (advertisement for the "Anastasians": read the next volumes of the epic).

Anastasia is concerned about the health of the human race. To do this, he wants to convey to people the knowledge of the "great-mother" about the proper breastfeeding of babies. Later, the theory expands. Puzakov writes that from the point of view of absolute health, "only a few among all those born on earth would have to be considered normal" (3, p. 323). In order to remedy the situation, an occult "method" of childbirth is proposed: conception should be performed under the family cedar (see below for the special significance of this plant for the cult of Anastasia) and with the participation of the stars (3, p. 325). The latter also affect the pregnant woman, who must constantly monitor them. Childbirth must necessarily take place at the place of conception, that is, ideally, in the family garden (3, pp. 326-327).

The pregnant Anastasia orders Puzakov to return to the world to organize "honest entrepreneurs" for the sake of the revival of Russia. He arrives in Moscow, but fails and as a result almost commits suicide. Then Anastasia "switches" him to writing. In total, nine books should be written about it (1, p. 364), that is, five more volumes remain to be invented.

The problem that Puzakov has already begun to face is obvious. People who believe in his fables want to see Anastasia. It is difficult to "present" anything other than a vulgar photo. That is why the slogan is proposed: "I exist for those for whom I exist" (1, p. 149). If you don't believe it, it's your problem. But just in case, a retreat maneuver is conceived: over time, the author, quite possibly, will kill his heroine. The first hint is found in Puzakov's conversation with "Anastasia's grandfather". The question is asked: "Will she inevitably die?" Grandfather answers: "It's hard to say. Everyone (from the family of the "enlightened" – Author) died much earlier, and she more than once embarked on the path that predicted physical death, but each time at the last moment the forgotten law that was stronger in its priority flashed brightly... He left life in her earthly body" (1, p. 376). So, if necessary, the plot allows...

Until this happened, we find mentions that Puzakov visited his girlfriend in the forest several times: "every time I was in the taiga" (3, p. 136), that is, several times. He even had to send her on a trip to Russia: Anastasia allegedly arrived incognito at a conference of sectarians in Gelendzhik (3, p. 385).

For us, of course, the new sectarian teaching is of great interest. As a matter of fact, not even a teaching, but a chaotic heap of statements about the divine. Puzakov's reader is unpretentious, religiously uneducated, but longs for contact with something mysterious and at the same time confirmed by "popular science literature". After all, everyone was an atheist in the past, and now I want something simple, but mysterious.

Puzakov - Anastasia about God