The lives of Nadezhda and Aristarchus finally passionately and instantly fused into a single whole, glowed like a fiery seam - as if the twenty-five-year bitter Shakespearean separation had never happened, as if each did not have a huge burden of difficult and sometimes terrible experience behind them. No, of course there was: Nadezhda tried to build her own publishing business in the dashing nineties, Aristarchus imprisoned himself for doctoral service in an Israeli prison. Orpheus and Eurydice met to... be separated again: a long-standing family story connected with the inheritance of the Napoleonic officer Aristarchus Bouguereau turned into a truly Monte Cristian - tragic - denouement.