The light smoke of the bygone century quietly melted away in the furious perestroika-shootout whirlwind that swept across the vast country without warning or special desire of those who fell under it. The author, like the main character of "The Wizard of Ozz" and "Emerald City", having fallen from a great height and without a parachute onto the heads of the new people of the new century, is still trying to find a secret door to the past. Whether it is possible to surf in time is for you and only you to judge, dear readers.