Olesya Nikolaeva is a famous poet and author of original prose, surprisingly positive, which will support you in time and prevent you from falling into the sin of despondency. The heroine of the book is a writer, a writer’s daughter, a priest’s wife. Her life is a chain of some incredible adventures, temptations and trials, and the house is a kind of Noah’s Ark: representatives of Moscow bohemia and monks can meet there, it is inhabited by relatives - close and distant, cats, a dog and even a monkey... And guests under become: either a Buryat magician turns into a fly, then a friend of his youth, having decided to marry a “noblewoman,” becomes the victim of a fraudster, the Minister of Culture flies up to the ceiling, and the heroine herself becomes a witness to a poltergeist. Funny, absurd, poignant, tragic. Like in life...