This paper analyzes the Soviet discourse in A. Terekhov’s novel The Stone Bridge (2009). The author employs a complex method of research, using the cultural and historical, structural-semantic, conceptual, and discourse kinds of analysis. Given the lack of research on the novel, the author refers to D. Bykov’s, V. Toporov’s, A. Stepanov’s, and D. Kharitonov’s critical reviews. The Soviet discourse is considered through its correlation with the imperial discourse. The latter gets three forms of representation in the text: the party elite, Stalin, and the elite’s children. One can identify two temporal planes in the novel: the Stalin era and the present. Owing to the investigation of the murder on Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge (Greater Stone Bridge) committed on June 3, 1943, the novel gets a tone of detective suspense. The Stalin era distinctly expresses the feeling of boundless power, whereas modern society loses this power and tries its best to find it. The characters’ of the novel interest in the past is explained by an ideological triviality of their lives as well as traumatic experiences that were caused by a collapse of the Soviet empire. The author concludes that the aspiration to share imperial power gives way to the fetishizing of the imperial idea and the simulation of Absolute Power.