About the book: 1998 / In a remote village, lost in the vastness of the Russian Empire, the maiden beauty of Christina bloomed like a spring flower. And this is a gift, but a difficult and dangerous gift. A beautiful girl faces thousands of temptations, and if she is also poor and lonely, then it is a hundred times more difficult for her to avoid them. Not a single man can resist Christina, who, by the will of fate, left her native village and ended up in a provincial town. Many sorrows and very few joys, which her pure, naive soul rejoiced so much, befell her lot. Christina’s life, like a shooting star, flashed in the dark sky, only to shine for a moment and dissolve in the darkness..