In this book you will find... yourself, mom and dad, your friends and family, what you dreamed about, what you were afraid of, what you talked about, who you loved, what you dressed in. Of course, this is a joke, Elena Kolina’s new novel is not about you, of course, it is about other, strangers, beautiful in some ways, terrible in others. But also about each of us. All the “trademark” features of the writer’s style - sincerity, wit, psychologism - are in the story of four St. Petersburg families living in the famous Tolstoy house, full of dramatic events and unexpected turns. About the life full of disappointments and charms that we, our entire generation, have been living for the last fifty years.