The Theater of Melting Shadows. The End of an Era

Anna grew up in an aristocratic family in a house on Bolshaya Morskaya. She departs with her family to her mother's estate by the sea to endure the tumultuous times of the Civil War. She is set on a long journey to freedom in the least free of times, a journey to herself through the unfreedom of traditions, conventions, and the horror of a bloody war. Revolution, fierce confrontation between the Bolsheviks and the White Guards, a change of power, Petrograd, Crimea, Berlin, a fragile young woman, her daughters, her husband's wayward nephew, an inappropriate, untimely love, and a little wolf cub… The reader, who knows everything that will happen to the country thereafter, can only worry for Anna, whether she will survive in this changing world, suddenly transformed into the theater of melting shadows.