The Aroma of Departed Times

When journalist Anastasia Tenyakova went to a Siberian sanatorium to improve her health, she did not expect the challenges that would come her way. What secret does her childhood friend Valentina Pavlovskaya hold? Why does she call the forest hermit Lukerya Popova her relative? Who is Katerina Maksinova? Why did French artist Pierre Odien decide to paint a portrait of Anastasia? Coincidences and patterns are not the same as checkers and chess, where pieces make moves and enter gambits and time pressures; any game can be started over. In life, one cannot turn back, cannot start with a clean slate, but the past must be remembered. Memories stir emotions, and you begin to understand yourself better - what you need, what is important, what hurts you, and what you can do without. They swarm like fallen leaves, adding new details and episodes, images and situations to the tormented past. They cannot be destroyed or erased forever.