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Mikhail Paschenko's book The Plot for a Mystery-Play: Parsifal - Kitezh - The Golden Cockerel is a unique work in Russian humanities, for which the philological approach to Opera has become an unexpected novelty. Without intruding into the study of musical texts and very carefully touching on topics directly related to musical empiricism, the author does not pretend to offer some universal research, but makes a feasible and very valuable contribution to the study of the works of Wagner and Rimsky-Korsakov. However, the significance of this truly fundamental work is not limited to these circumstances. The book should become an indispensable guide for any reader who is keenly interested in the history of mystery-drama and mystery-theater in the pre-modern and modern times.