In Bunin’s story “Easy Breathing,” fifteen-year-old high school student Olya Meshcherskaya says to the head of the gymnasium: “Forgive me, madame, you are mistaken. I am a woman. And do you know who is to blame for this? Vera, the heroine of the novel “The Seducer,” does not blame anyone. No one is to blame for the fact that her first love fell upon her not with romantic dreams or innocent kisses with a classmate, but with the constant danger of exposure, shame and passion of such crushing power that she can hardly boast of that main sign of female beauty that Olya Meshcherskaya boasts of . Namely, “light breathing.”