About the book: 2019 / Women's love is often not subject to logic. Especially the love of a dead woman... Elena Vozdvizhenskaya, roughly deflowered, treated men with irony. But, having met her mother’s doctor, the impressive and serious Terekhov, she fell madly in love. Fatal passions and mysticism in the scenery of merchant Moscow in the early twentieth century is a new plot by Irina Muravyova, who works in the unusual genre of a noir novel. Mermaids and devils, rich gays and revolutionaries, suffragettes and kept women - you name it, there is so much to see in this enchanting book. And they are all tragically connected with each other by the carnival of History, in which everyone plays their role.