Here is the story “Irinka’s Happiness” from the collection “Lida the Girl” by the Terra publishing house. Abstract to the collection: The collection includes works about girls and for girls. The stories “Chukhlashka” by Nikolai Wagner and “The Sphinx” by Lydia Charskaya; stories by L. Nelidova, E. Averyanova and T. Shchepkina-Kupernik. More than one generation of female readers read them at the beginning of our century; their heroines were sympathized with, imitated, and empathized with. And even though the living conditions and clothing of these heroines are not at all similar to modern ones, they still dreamed, played pranks, suffered and were capricious almost the same as today’s girls. Contents Sphinx. Author: Lydia Charskaya Chukhlashka. Author: Nikolai Vagner From Lita’s childhood. Author: Tatyana Shchepkina-KupernikGirl Lida. Author: Lidiya Nelidova Irinka’s happiness. Author: Elena Averyanova* * *Annotation to the story: They met as children. Leva Subbotin was interested in little Irinka, the daughter of a teacher, and he wanted to get to know her. Irinka, feeling his protection and support, fell in love with Leva with all her heart. But Lyova is a future student, he needs to study, and for many years every day she will wait for his return. And many years will pass until Irinka becomes quite an adult and waits to meet her friend. In E. A. Averyanova’s trilogy “Irinka’s Happiness”, “At the Dawn of Life”, “Spring Tale”, each work represents a complete whole, but at the same time one is a direct continuation of the other.