The Life of a Soviet Girl

Tatiana Moskvin (1958–2022) – theater and film critic, playwright, brilliant journalist, author of popular books "Praise for Bad Chocolate", "Death is All Men", "Shame and Purity", "Let’s Figure It Out!".

Her most famous book "The Life of a Soviet Girl" —... is a unique perspective on how we lived, what we were like and what we have become. A book about growing up in the late Soviet era, about how not steel but a woman was tempered. A woman who learned to be strong, to look to the root, to love brightly and to laugh from the heart. This book is a story about being true to oneself at all times.

"The Life of a Soviet Girl" — a self-portrait set against the unobtrusive background of Leningrad in the 60s-80s of the last century, written with that merciless precision that reveals the author as a consistent adherent of the Russian realistic school, a subtle psychologist, and a meticulous researcher of the fading Soviet nature. From numerous funny and sad stories, precise observations, and honest memories, a Book of Life unfolds that one cannot tear away from…

Sergey Nikolaevich