Nina Fedorova (Antonina Ivanovna Podgorina) was born in 1895 in the town of Lokhvitsa, Poltava province. She spent her childhood in Verkhneudinsk, in Transbaikalia. She graduated from the historical and philological department of the Bestuzhev Women's Courses in St. Petersburg. After the revolution, she left Russia and went to Harbin. In 1923, she married the historian and cultural scientist V. Ryazanovsky. Her sons, Nikolai and Alexander, also became historians. In 1936 the family moved to Tianjin, and in 1938 to the USA. The most famous was N. Fedorova’s novel “Family,” published in 1940 in English. The author's translation into Russian of the novel was published in 1952 by the New York publishing house. Chekhov. The novel, dedicated to the life history of Russian emigrants in Tianjin, the problem of fathers and sons, was well received by critics of the Russian emigration. In 1958, its sequel, Children, was published in Frankfurt am Main.” In 1964–1966, the first part of her Life trilogy was published in Washington. In 1964, the book “Theater for Children” was published in Sao Paulo. Almost until the end of her life she wrote novels and taught at the University of Oregon. She died in Auckland in 1985. We present to your attention the third book of Nina Fedorova’s “Life” trilogy.