Taming the Red Horse: [novel] / Yulia Yakovleva. — M.: Alpina non-fiction, 2024. — 384 p. — (Series "Historical Detective"). ISBN 978-5-91671-358-9 The second book in Yulia Yakovleva's detective series about detective Zaitsev, set in the 1930s in Leningrad. At the center of the plot is a death at the races: jockey Zhemchuzhny and the Soviet genetics marvel, the famous horse Pryanik, die. To solve the crime, Zaitsev will have to find himself in various places: at the hippodrome and veterinary clinic, in a tavern and at the station. Fate will also take him to the famine-stricken south of the country. Yulia Yakovleva's historical novel is about the millstones of time, in which it is difficult but necessary to preserve oneself. UDC 821.621.111-312.4 BBK 84(2=411.2)6-445.7