Nina Voronel is a famous novelist, playwright, translator, and poet. But the main thing in her work is prose; she is the author of more than ten prose works. Publishing house "Folio" presents Nina Voronel's new novel "This Side of Evil" - a continuation of the book "The Past and Ladies". At the center of the story is the fate of women of different character and moral principles - the brilliant Lou von Salome and Elizabeth Nietzsche, who were associated with famous people of their time: Freud, Rilke, Mussolini, Hitler and Count Harry Kessler - a diplomat, patron and friend of famous artists, and thanks to his diaries, he was also a chronicler of the Belle Epoque, which ended with the First World War and the invasion of the brown plague. Her heroes took with them the secrets that Nina Voronel’s novel offers to unravel.