He lives in England, and his name is Edward Misha Brown-Royce. Edward - in honor of the English King Edward VIII, as my mother wished. Misha - in honor of Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, this is also at my mother’s request. His last name is his father’s; his father is a professor of Slavic studies at one of the oldest English universities. But in the family they call him Eddie. And everything would have been like other children for Eddie if mom had not left dad for Dave, her personal trainer, and dad, after she left, had not married the contentious Margarita, his student. However, Eddie has friends - the dog Boris and grandmother Varya, who, although she lives in St. Petersburg, often comes to England to visit her grandson, and sometimes takes him to her place in Russia. The world of adults with their secrets, betrayals, intrigues, holidays and everyday life , seen through the eyes of a teenager - this is the fabric of the novel offered to the reader. We are confident that the kind reader will return an acquittal.