Nashestvie

Nakanune vtorzheniya armii Napoleona v Rossiyu zhizn' v Smolenskoy gubernii idet svoim cheredom. Odnako v vozduhe uzhe vitaet zloveshchiy duh voyny. A kogda v lesu mestnogo pomeshchika Burmina nahodyat nechto uzhasnoe, dela prinimayut mrachnyy oborot. Sam Burmin, veteran pervoy russkoy voyny s Napoleonom i srazheniya pod Austerlicem 1805 goda, vozvrashchaetsya domoy sovsem drugim: teper' ego muchayut strannye pristupy, obonyanie obostryaetsya, sobstvennoe telo perestaet slushat'sya i vdobavok ko vsemu etomu — provaly v pamyati. Skryvaya svoyu novuyu sushchnost', Burmin provodit gody v zatvornichestve, poka sluchaynaya vstrecha s byloy lyubov'yu ne probuzhdaet v nem starye chuvstva. Voodushevlennyy, Burmin vozvrashchaetsya v svet, i ego tut zhe utyagivaet krugovorot sobytiy, kotoryy navsegda izmenit ne tol'ko ego zhizn', no i zhizn' vsey Rossii.
V «Nashestvii» YUliya YAkovleva masterski sochetaet stilistiku russkoy prozy XIX veka s elementami mistiki. Ee mir 1812 goda — eto mir tayn i zagadok, mir gneta i perezhivaniy, intrig i otkroveniy.