The aim of this paper is to analyze the novel Solovyov and Larionov by the contemporary Russian writer Evgeny Vodolazkin through the prism of interdiscursive relations of novel-history/ historiography. Starting from the theories of the postmodernist historical novel (Elizabeth Wesseling, Brian McHale, Linda Hutchon), the interpretation is focused on one of the dominant aspects of this literary genre - the immanent provocation of the relationship between fiction and history that is realized in multiple ways: through affirmation of their common narrative aspects, through epistemological problematizations of historical knowledge and truth and by illustrating the mediated availability of the past through its textual traces.