About the book: 1982 / The story and stories collected in this first book by Natalya Dmitrieva were published in the magazines “Moscow”, “Smena” , “Soviet Woman”, in the weekly “Literary Russia”. The works of the young writer are distinguished by lyricism, thoughtfulness, and thoroughness in the development of characters and the motivation for the actions of the heroes - people, as a rule, interesting and attractive. Another common hero of most of the works in the collection is the city of Moscow. For N. Dmitrieva, this is a deeply personal, her own, ancient city with its traditional warmth and captivating harmony between the ageless past and the rapid new.