About the book: 1959 / “Cleopatra Sergeevna and Evgenia Nikolaevna; both beautiful young women. Cleopatra Sergeevna, apparently, was getting ready to go somewhere and was already wearing a hat; but, interested in the words of her friend, she paused for a while and, looking as if in a mirror, listened to her; and Evgenia Nikolaevna is sitting in a chair. Evgenia Nikolaevna. As you wish, but you won’t convince anyone of this.…»