About the book: 2014 / Russians in Paris in the 1920s–1930s. Foreign stepmother. Day labor. Homesickness - maybe you will never have to see it again. And - great poetry, immortal music. Love stories, imprinted with fiery seals on the chronicle parchment of the century. Artists and politicians. Generals who became taxi drivers. Princesses who became milliners. And from the east the Second World War is looming like a cloud. Elena Kryukova's novel about Russian emigration in France is both symbolic and realistic. The authenticity of destinies can be discerned behind fictitious names.