Fans of Japrisot will certainly be surprised by the simplicity and artlessness of the style of this novel. The fact is that “The Doomed Beginning” is the first work of the famous author of “The Death Row,” “The Trap for Cinderella” and other books that brought Japrizo worldwide popularity. The recognized master of the detective genre wrote his debut novel at the age of seventeen, and it was a novel about love - the first, mutual and doomed love of a fourteen-year-old pupil of a Catholic school and a young nun. This book brought the author the first literary award in his life - the Yunanimite (Unanimity) Prize. The novel is published in Russian for the first time.