“Madame Dances Barefoot” is the first in a series of heartfelt and exciting retro novels by Olga Shumyatskaya and Marina Drubetskaya. The authors write about Russia, in which the Silver Age lasts, cinema and photography are flourishing, airships are floating in the sky above the capital, someone’s destinies are shaping up and someone’s lives are being shattered. The plot is based on a love triangle: the brilliant film director Sergei Eisbar, in which the features of Sergei Eisenstein are discernible; young uninhibited avant-garde photographer Lenny Offenstahl and film industrialist Alexander Ozhogin. Against the backdrop of the era, they love and create, and the era is torn from their hands like a film strip...