Elena Chizhova is a prose writer, the author of many books, including “The Time of Women” (Russian Booker Prize), “The City Written from Memory”, “The Terracotta Old Woman”, “Orestes and Son”, “The Sinologist”. "The Lord of Things" is a new novel. St. Petersburg, March 201.... Anna, a former school teacher, hopes that following the dramatic changes in the country, her own life will change. The small world in which, in addition to Anna, her family lives: a mother, the owner of a rich collection of antiques, and a son, an aspiring game designer creating the Great Game, will truly change. But the reason for this will be the terrible truth about the past.