How in our time to overmaster the capital to the girl from a province?. Naive, honest, clean, growing under a wing for a mother and being out of pocket neither, nor model appearance nor capital university education. In a word, to the idealist. Such was Сашенька Адуева to the arrival to Moscow on "education" to the rich aunt. What exploits are necessary to be accomplished, that in seventeen years your name in native city was pronounced with trembling and by envy?It is a not fairy-tale about Cinderella, and novel about life, with all her unattractive parties, pain and gladness, flights and falling, love and hatred. History about that, whom nice domestic girls grow into, when understand that gifts from a fate, waiting is not needed, and princes no longer search on the nooks of empire of charming slobs.Here I am about what to think, what surprised, above what to cry. And after it to go to re-read the classics.Roman is written on reasons to "Usual history" of И. Гончарова. Did a great deal change in our life since then?