The story “Ivan the Tea” by the famous St. Petersburg writer, poet and songwriter Lev Kuklin (1931–2004) is one of five stories unpublished during the author’s lifetime. This is the farewell gift of a Man who has the rare ability to write about love and the sensual relationships of a Man and a Woman with a piercing note of tenderness. Like Kuklin’s other stories, “Ivan Chai” is not just a story about love, it is a story about life with all its eternal themes and manifestations that change over time.