To truly love our homeland, while living in its very middle (not to say depth), is not an easy matter, Galina Yuzefovich once wrote about the author whose book you are now holding in your hands. And every year and with every published book, this thought becomes more and more true and - sad? specialty, loving chemistry, and not too trusting writing as a craft that can feed our families. If we can say about Claude Monet that he paints light, about Mikhail Bara we can say that he paints silence. In any case, when you read his miniatures, the white noise that accompanies you all your life fades away as you go, you begin to breathe deeper and it’s as if you are immersed in a light and warm blanket. A dacha, a village, a stove - and a recipe for mountain ash, a summer evening in the city, special museum old ladies - and then a story about what would have happened if Alexander Sergeevich had married Anna Nikolaevna... A journey that can begin at any moment and from any place.