These children's stories describe unusual events that happened to an ordinary schoolgirl Lada and her friends: Petrushka, Cinderella and other living dolls. In these stories, living dolls turn out to be smarter, more resourceful, and most importantly more highly moral, more humane than the living people participating in these stories. These stories describe the events of the beginning of the difficult, dashing nineties of the last century, the time of the formation of market relations not only in the economy, but also in relationships between people. And in these difficult times, living dolls and their behavior evoke more sympathy than the behavior of other living people.